| Main Entry: | waxy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slippery |
Synonyms: |
glassy, glistening, lustrous, slick, smooth |
| Main Entry: | waxy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pliable |
Synonyms: |
impressionable, soft, waxen, weak, yielding |
| Main Entry: | waxy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
Synonyms: |
ashen, blanched, ghostly, pallid, pasty, waxen, white, whitish |
| Main Entry: | waxy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | containing wax |
Synonyms: |
ceraceous, ceral, facile, fictile, impressible, impressionable, lustrous, pale, plastic, pliable, slick, slippery, smooth, waxen, yielding |
| Main Entry: | adhesive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sticking |
Synonyms: |
adherent, adhering, agglutinant, attaching, clinging, clingy, gelatinous, glutinous, gooey, gummed, gummy, holding, hugging, mucilaginous, pasty, resinous, sticky, tenacious, viscid, viscous, waxy |
| Notes: | adhesive is a substance for sticking one thing to another; cohesive refers to particles of the same substance sticking together |
Antonyms: |
inadhesive, loose, open, separated, unattachable |
| Main Entry: | lustrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glossy, shining |
Synonyms: |
bright, burnished, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glacé, gleaming, glinting, glistening, glorious, glowing, incandescent, lambent, lucent, luminous, polished, radiant, refulgent, shimmering, shiny, sparkling, splendid, waxy |
Antonyms: |
dark, dull, matte, unshiny |
| Main Entry: | oily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fatty, greasy |
Synonyms: |
adipose, buttery, butyraceous, creamy, lardy, lubricant, lubricative, lubricous, lustrous, oil-soaked, oiled, oleaginous, polished, rich, saponaceous, sleek, slippery, smeary, smooth, soapy, soothing, swimming, unctuous, waxy |
Antonyms: |
dry |
| Main Entry: | sallow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, unhealthy |
Synonyms: |
anemic, ashen, ashy, bilious, colorless, dull, greenish-yellow, jaundiced, muddy, pallid, pasty, wan, waxy, yellowish |
Antonyms: |
colorful, dark, flushed, healthy |
| Main Entry: | slippery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smooth, slick |
Synonyms: |
glacé, glassy, glazed, glistening, greasy, icy, like a skating rink, lubricious, lustrous, perilous, polished, satiny, silky, sleek, slimy, soapy, unctuous, unsafe, unstable, unsteady, waxy, wet |
Antonyms: |
dry, unslippery |
| Main Entry: | tenacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sticky |
Synonyms: |
adhesive, clinging, clingy, fast, firm, fixed, glutinous, gummy, inseparable, mucilaginous, resisting, retentive, secure, set, tacky, tight, viscid, viscose, viscous, waxy |
Antonyms: |
loose, slack, unattached |