What is the meaning of waxy?

adjective

  • Made of or covered with wax.
    • usage: "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy"
  • Easily impressed or influenced.
    • usage: "an impressionable youngster"; "an impressionable age"; "a waxy mind"
  • Capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.
    • usage: "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"
  • Having the paleness of wax.
    • usage: "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"
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