waxen in English

adjective

1

having a smooth, pale, translucent surface or appearance like that of wax.

a canopy of waxen, creamy blooms

synonyms: pallid, pale, pasty, wan, ashen, colorless, anemic, bloodless, washed out, white, gray, whitish, waxy, drained, sickly

adjective

• pallid, pale, pasty, wan, ashen, colorless, anemic, bloodless, washed out, white, gray, whitish, waxy, drained, sickly
• waxy

Use "waxen" in a sentence

1. Under the round leaves, where the waxen yellow blossoms hung, bevies of wild bees were Buzzing

2. Thine heart is lifted up; thou art waxen proud, and Aspirest above all reason, and boastest extravagantly in thyself, state policy, and power

3. Source null A waxen dark-green mist appeared on the river, palpitating energy sucked hither from some Cabalistic fog bank by the power of the spellsong

4. His sinews waxen weak and raw / Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.; Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.; Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, Betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and