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All waxy synonyms

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adjective waxy

  • lustrous — having luster; shining; luminous: lustrous eyes.
  • impressible — capable of being impressed; impressionable.
  • impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • waxen — pertaining to, made of, or resembling wax: a wax candle; a wax doll.
  • ceraceous — waxlike or waxy
  • facile — moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
  • fictile — capable of being molded.
  • pale — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
  • plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
  • pliable — easily bent; flexible; supple: pliable leather.
  • slick — smooth and glossy; sleek.
  • slippery — tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road.
  • smooth — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
  • yielding — inclined to give in; submissive; compliant: a timid, yielding man.
  • glistening — to reflect a sparkling light or a faint intermittent glow; shine lustrously.
  • glassy — resembling glass, as in transparency or smoothness.
  • soft — yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, divided, or changed in shape; not hard or stiff: a soft pillow.
  • weak — not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
  • ashen — Someone who is ashen looks very pale, especially because they are ill, shocked, or frightened.
  • blanched — to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.
  • ghostly — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
  • pallid — pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
  • pasty — of or like paste in consistency, texture, color, etc.
  • white — of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
  • whitish — somewhat white; tending to white.
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