wrinkle

Speech parts

1. wrinkle - Noun

2. wrinkle - Verb

3. Wrinkle - Proper noun

Meaning

A winkle.

A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.

hence, any roughness; unevenness.

A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.

To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.

Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.

To shrink into furrows and ridges.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rumple crisp purse furrow crease crinkle scrunch ruckle crumple scrunch up ridge cocker moraine bend crump
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Antonyms

being case fact evidence occur basis
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Hypernyms

method depression contract difficulty impression fold

Hyponyms

cockle ruck rumple knit pucker life line

Phrases with the word

latest wrinkle wrinkle-proof no-wrinkle non-wrinkle wrinkle-faced bat wrinkle cream

Derivatives

wrinkled wrinkling

Anagrams

winkler

Examples

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. Erma Bombeck

Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die. Charles Bukowski

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know. Angelina Jolie

An old wrinkle never wears out. English Proverb

Each wrinkle is an ounce of wisdom. Sicilian Proverb

It came a wrinkle to love. Finnish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

wringle-wrangle wringstaff Wrington wrinkle cream wrinkle-faced bat wrinkle-free