waxy

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waxy

The artist sculpts a waxy figure from a block of modeling wax.

Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Resembling wax in appearance or texture: Having a smooth, pale, or slightly shiny quality similar to wax.
    • Made of or covered with wax: Composed of or coated in a waxy substance.
    • Flexible, pliable: Capable of being bent or shaped without breaking. (This meaning is less common and often overlaps with 'waxen' in flexibility).
    • Easily influenced; impressionable: Suggestible or easily shaped by external forces, like wax.
Usage Examples
  • Resembling wax:
    • The waxy surface of the leaves helped repel water.
    • Her skin had a waxy pallor after the illness.
  • Made of or covered with wax:
    • The waxy coating on the cheese helps preserve it.
    • He held a waxy candle in his hand.
  • Flexible (less common):
    • The waxy stems of the young plant bent easily in the wind.
  • Easily influenced:
    • At that waxy age, teenagers are highly susceptible to peer pressure.
Advanced Usage
  • "Waxy flexibility": A medical/psychological term (catalepsy) describing a state where a person's limbs can be positioned and will hold that position, as if made of pliable wax.
    • The patient exhibited waxy flexibility, a symptom of the condition.
  • "Waxy degeneration": A pathological term for tissues (e.g., in liver or muscle) that take on a pale, wax-like appearance.
    • The biopsy revealed evidence of waxy degeneration.
Variants and Related Words
  • Waxen (adj): Very similar to 'waxy,' often used for pale complexion () or being made of wax (). Can also imply malleability.
  • Wax (n/v): The substance itself; to apply wax; to increase (as in the moon 'waxes').
  • Waxiness (n): The quality or state of being waxy.
Synonyms
  • Pallid: Pale (for complexion).
  • Pliable: Flexible, bendable.
  • Impressionable: Easily influenced.
  • Lustrous: Shiny (when referring to a wax-like shine).
Antonyms
  • Ruddy: Having a healthy red color (opposite of waxy pallor).
  • Brittle: Easily broken (opposite of flexible meaning).
  • Stubborn: Unyielding, not easily influenced.
Related Phrases/Idioms
  • A waxy build-up: Refers to an accumulation of a wax-like substance, often in a technical or biological context (e.g., in ears or on machinery).
    • The doctor removed the waxy build-up from the patient's ear.
  • (Slang, archaic) To get waxy: To become angry. (Note: This is an old, informal usage not directly related to the primary definitions).
    • He got rather waxy when he heard the news.
waxy

The artist sculpts a waxy figure from a block of modeling wax.

Adjective
  1. having the paleness of wax
    • the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor- Bram Stoker
    • the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him
    • a thin face with a waxy paleness
  2. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
    • a flexible wire
    • a pliant young tree
  3. easily impressed or influenced
    • an impressionable youngster
    • an impressionable age
    • a waxy mind
  4. made of or covered with wax
    • waxen candles
    • careful, the floor is waxy

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