Synonyms for waxy
- adjective
Most common
pliable pliant bendable impressionable impressible waxen plastic ceraceous
Definitions
- adj. 1
Resembling wax in texture or appearance.
- adj. 2
Low in starch; tending to remain firm when cooked.
- adj. 3
Angry.
Related words
- Phrases
- waxy flexibility waxy rice
Example sentences
- pliable Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
- pliant We need fewer pliant journalists, not more.
- impressionable Sami was a young and impressionable teenager back then.
- impressible You are excessively impressible.
- waxen Madame Tussauds is full of waxen images.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| waxy | steady | |
| pliable | steady | |
| pliant | rising | |
| bendable | steady | |
| impressionable | rising | |
| impressible | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- mad1
- 5 letters
- angry2, irate2, waxen
- 6 letters
- pliant2
- 7 letters
- plastic2, pliable3, waxlike
- 8 letters
- bendable, choleric3
- 9 letters
- ceraceous3
- 11 letters
- impressible
- 14 letters
- impressionable5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (angry2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- cireux