waxen

Other forms of waxen

comparative

waxenner·

superlative

waxennest·

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 waxen

What does waxen mean?

waxen means "made of or covered with wax". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in waxen?

waxen has 2 syllables: wax-en. The stress falls on "wax".

What is another word for waxen?

Close synonyms include waxy, waxlike, waxy. 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.

Is waxen a common word?

waxen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.