wax

1. 1.

   any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water

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Other forms of wax

plural

waxes·

past tense

waxed·

present participle

waxing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wax

What does wax mean?

wax means "cover with wax". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wax?

wax has 1 syllable: wax. In IPA it is /ˈwæks/.

What is another word for wax?

Close synonyms include mount, climb, rise, full. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of wax?

The recorded antonyms are wane, wane.

Is wax a common word?

wax is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with wax?

1 word rhymes with wax. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.