waxy, a. waxen, ceraceous, ceral; facile, pliable, fictile, impressible, plastic.
way, n. manner, method, mode, fashion, style, guise, custom, habitude, wont, practice; distance, interval, space; passage, transit, progression, advance; means, device, expedient, contrivance; direction; road, track, path, thoroughfare.
wayfarer, n. traveler, pilgrim, passenger, wanderer.
wayfaring, a. traveling, passing.
way in. entrance.
waylay, v. ambush.
way out. exit, egress.
wayward, a. disobedient, perverse, froward, willful, intractable, headstrong.
waywiser, n. odometer, pedometer, perambulator.
weak, a. feeble, infirm, debilitated, weakly, fragile, delicate, invalid, emasculated, enervated; vulnerable, assailable, unguarded, unprotected, exposed; frail, pliant, tender; peccable, fallible, errable, erring, indiscreet; impotent, ineffectual, inefficacious, ineffective; illogical, unsustained, inconclusive, lame, unsatisfactory; vacillating, irresolute, wavering, unstable; diluted, thin, insipid, vapid; slight, gauzy, sleazy, flimsy, brittle, fragile; unsound, unsubstantial, defective, unsafe, rickety.
weaken, v. debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, unnerve, emasculate, incapacitate, sap, undermine, unman, exhaust, deplete; dilute, thin; invalidate; impair, diminish, lower, decline.
weakening, a. debilitant; diluent, attenuant.
weak-kneed, a. yielding, irresolute, pliant, vacillating.
weak-minded, a. feeble-minded, foolish, shallow, witless.
weakness, n. debility, feebleness, infirmity, enervation, debilitation, frailness, fragility, impotence, invalidism; vulnerability, accessibility, exposedness; foible, defect, deficiency; peccability, errability, fallibility; inefficacy, ineffectiveness; vacillation, indecision, instability, irresolution; atony, asthenia.
wealth, n. opulence, affluence, riches, fortune, competence. Associated Words: economics, Pluto, plutocracy, plutology, chrysology, chrematistics, plutomania, plutocrat, plutocratic, magnate.
wealthy, a. opulent, affluent, rich, capitalistic, independent.
wean, v. disaccustom, alienate, detach.
weaning, n. ablactation; alienation.
wear away. abrade, fray, erode, corrode, fret, chafe.
wearied, a. tired, fatigued, exhausted, weary, fagged, jaded.
weariness, n. fatigue, lassitude, languor, exhaustion, ennui.
wearing away. abrasion, attrition, detrition, corrosion, erosion.
weary, a. tired, fatigued, worn, exhausted, wearied, spent, fagged, ennuye.
weary, v. tire, fatigue, exhaust, jade, fag, bore.
weather, n. Associated Words: meteorology, meteorologist, barometer.
weather-cock, n. weather-vane.
weave, v. entwine, interlace, mat, plait, braid, plat, fabricate.
weaving, n. Associated Words: loom, textile, textorial, textrine, spindle.