wrinkled
AdjectiveUS[ring-kuhld]/ˈrɪŋkəld/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adjective (2)
- marked by wrinkles“tired travelers in wrinkled clothes”Synonyms: wrinklyOpposite unwrinkledSimilar unsmoothedSee also furrowed, rugged
- (of linens or clothes) not ironed“a pile of unironed laundry”“wore unironed jeans”Synonyms: unironedSimilar drip-dry, roughdried, unpressedSee also rough, unsmooth
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“wrinkled” is listed under Wrinkle.
Wrin′kle transitive verb [past tense & past participle Wrinkled; present participle & verbal noun Wrinkling.]
1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. “Sport that wrinkled Care derides.” John Milton
Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.— Alexander Pope
2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed.— John Milton
Then danced we on the wrinkled sand.— William Cullen Bryant
To wrinkle at, to sneer at. obsolete John Marston
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54