waxen

Grown.

Made of or covered with wax.

a waxen tablet

She is fair; and so is Julia that I love— That I did love, for now my love is thaw’d; Which, like a waxen image, ’gainst a fire, Bears no impression of the thing it was.

Of or pertaining to wax.

Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.

It was hard to imagine that the broken thing had once been new; that those withered, waxen cheeks had been fresh and tinted. That her eyes had long ago glinted with laughter.

Easily molded, influenced, or bent; yielding, impressible.

The traveller hears me now and then, ⁠And sometimes harshly will he speak: ⁠‘This fellow would make weakness weak, And melt the waxen hearts of men.’

Easily effaced, as if written in wax.