Waxen definition

wăksən

Made of or covered with wax.

adjective

Pale or smooth as wax.

Waxen skin.

adjective

Weak, pliable, or impressionable.

Waxen minds.

adjective

Made of wax.

adjective

Like wax, as in being yellowish, soft, smooth, lustrous, pale, plastic, pliable, impressionable, etc.

adjective

Covered with wax.

adjective

(UK, dialectal) Grown.

adjective

Alternative past participle of wax.

verb

Made of wax; covered with wax.

A waxen tablet.

adjective

Of or pertaining to wax.

adjective

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

adjective

(rare) Easily effaced, as if written in wax.

adjective

verb

Origin of waxen

From Middle English waxen, from Old English weaxen, Ä¡eweaxen, past participle of weaxan (“to wax, grow, be fruitful, increase, become powerful, flourish"). More at wax.

From Wiktionary
From Middle English, from Old English weaxen (“waxen, made of wax"), equivalent to wax +"Ž -en.

From Wiktionary