Wiktionary
a. Resembling wax.
WordNet
adj. having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness" [syn: waxen, waxy]
resembling or covered with wax; "as shiny as a waxy pippin"; "the ceraceous surface of the leaves" [syn: waxy, ceraceous]
Usage examples of "waxlike".
When not on stage, and making an effort to perform, the most vivacious of them could turn remarkably waxlike, as if they were nothing without an audience.
She returned with a branch covered with glossy leaves and small white blossoms of a waxlike texture.
The skin is too waxlike, the chest too still, the lips too dry, the eyes too sunken behind the closed lids.
Hat in hand, Garnache took a step forward in that bare, scantily furnished little room, permeated by the faint, waxlike odour that is peculiar to the abode of conventuals.
Now that it was in the deep darkness of the cave, the creature was shining brightly with its own internally generated light This was not the phosphorescence of putrefaction, but a deeply originated glow which shone through the deep and waxlike skin and hinted of luminous reactions unconnected with bioluminescence.
The dolls were made of a hard, waxlike substanceeaa kind of molded rubber, pliable, durable, sturdy enough to take bending and pounding.
Jason Lynn with the girl--the one who had made the trip--placed his hands on his face, twisted at his features, and waxlike substance and the walrus mustaches came off.
If ever a figure represented death in all its fullness, that waxlike form of Varney Haldrew met the qualification!
Sabbatha had found the mallet and was handing it to Warren, who, like Cedric, still thought the shape of Varney was a waxlike imitation.
A sure way - one that was reflected in the cunning smile that played upon his waxlike lips.
He felt that behind that smooth brow, which looked waxlike now, the mind was still alert, scheming, plotting, striving for freedom, for conquest and for power, and rendered even doubly keen and virile by the ardour of supreme self-sacrifice.
Within the little room, Clussig began to feel a horror of the waxlike face that he had seen.
With a frenzied gesture, the Indian chief ripped away his feather and his waxlike war mask.
It's not much: a wild and waxlike bleeding less of bloom than leaf, hiding and hiding the hammock, until along in late May, in the twilight, her-Little Belle's-voice would be like the murmur of the wild grape itself.