adj
Meaning 1
Resembling wax in texture or appearance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ceraceous
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
waxy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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wăkʹsē
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/ˈwæksi/
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rhymes with -æksi
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CMU ARPABET: W AE1 K S IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Low in starch; tending to remain firm when cooked.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: floury
adj
Meaning 3
Angry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, regional
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A cobbler (shoe repairer).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lad of wax
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
easily impressed or influenced
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an impressionable youngster
- an impressionable age
- a waxy mind
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: impressionable, impressible
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 6
made of or covered with wax
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- waxen candles
- careful, the floor is waxy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: waxen
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
having the paleness of wax- Bram Stoker
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor
- the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him
- a thin face with a waxy paleness
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: waxen, waxlike
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a flexible wire
- a pliant young tree
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bendable, pliable, pliant
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English waxi, wexy, equivalent to wax (“soft oily substance”) + -y.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *wahsą Proto-West Germanic *wahs Old English weax Middle English wax English wax Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English waxy From wax (“fit of anger”) + -y.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: восъчен (vosǎčen) — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Catalan: cerós — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Czech: voskový — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Czech: voskovitý — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Czech: jako z vosku — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Finnish: vahamainen — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- French: cireux — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- German: wächsern — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- German: wachsartig — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- German: Wachs- — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Hungarian: viaszszerű — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Italian: cereo — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Latin: cerosus — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Māori: kōnononono — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Māori: āhua wākihi — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Polish: woskowy — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Polish: woskowaty — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Portuguese: céreo — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Portuguese: ceroso — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Scottish Gaelic: cèireach — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Spanish: ceroso — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Swedish: vaxartad — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- Welsh: cwyr — Resembling wax in texture or appearance
- German: festkochend — Of a potato, low in starch
- Polish: wodnisty — Of a potato, low in starch
- Swedish: fast — Of a potato, low in starch