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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | waxlike |
| Synonyms: | wax-covered, waxy |
| Main Entry: | waxen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
| Synonyms: | ashen, blanched, ghostly, pallid, pasty, white, whitish |
| Main Entry: | wax |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become large, fuller |
| Synonyms: | augment, become, build, come, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, fill out, get bigger, get to, grow, grow full, heighten, increase, magnify, mount, multiply, rise, run, swell, turn, upsurge |
| Notes: | wane means to gradually decrease in strength or size, while wax means to increase in size or strength |
| Antonyms: | shrink |
| Main Entry: | colorless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without hue |
| Synonyms: | achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, cadaverous, doughy, drab, dull, faded, flat, ghastly, livid, lurid, neutral, pale, sickly, uncolored, wan, washed out, waxen, white |
| Antonyms: | brilliant, colored, colorful, motley, rich, stimulating, vibrant, vivid |
| Main Entry: | livid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, ashen |
| Synonyms: | ashy, blanched, bloodless, colorless, discolored, dusky, gloomy, greyish, grisly, leaden, lurid, murky, pallid, pasty, wan, waxen |
| Notes: | lurid means horrible in fierceness or savagery or glaringly graphic, while livid means very angry or furious |
| Antonyms: | blushing, brilliant, flushed, radiant, rosy |
| Main Entry: | pale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light in color or effect |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, bloodless, cadaverous, colorless, deathlike, dim, doughy, dull, faded, faint, feeble, ghastly, gray, haggard, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, insubstantial, livid, lurid, pallid, pasty, poor, sallow, sick, sickly, spectral, thin, unsubstantial, wan, washed-out, waxen, waxlike, weak, white, whitish |
| Notes: | a pail is a bucket while pale means whitish in complexion or very light colored |
| Antonyms: | bright, colorful, glowing, radiant |
| Main Entry: | pasty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, bloodless, dull, pallid, sallow, sickly, unhealthy, wan, waxen |
| Antonyms: | blushing, flushed, healthy, vivid |
| Main Entry: | wan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | colorless, weak |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, ashy, bilious, blanched, bleached, bloodless, cadaverous, dim, discolored, faint, feeble, forceless, ghastly, haggard, ineffective, ineffectual, livid, pale, pallid, pasty, peaked, sickly, washed-out, waxen, white, worn |
| Antonyms: | colorful, flushed, strong |
| Main Entry: | white |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely pale; lacking color |
| Synonyms: | achromatic, achromic, alabaster, ashen, blanched, bleached, bloodless, chalky, clear, fair, frosted, ghastly, hoary, immaculate, ivory, light, milky, neutral, pallid, pasty, pearly, silver, silvery, snowy, transparent, wan, waxen |
| Antonyms: | black, dark, dirty |
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