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Meaning of waxy

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  waxy
      adj 1: made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful,
             the floor is waxy" [syn: {waxen}, {waxy}]
      2: easily impressed or influenced; "an impressionable
         youngster"; "an impressionable age"; "a waxy mind" [syn:
         {impressionable}, {waxy}, {impressible}] [ant:
         {unimpressionable}]
      3: capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking;
         "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree" [syn: {bendable},
         {pliable}, {pliant}, {waxy}]
      4: 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" [syn: {waxen}, {waxlike}, {waxy}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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