WRINKLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrinkled mean? 

• WRINKLED (adjective)
  The adjective WRINKLED has 2 senses:

1. marked by wrinkles

2. (of linens or clothes) not ironed

  Familiarity information: WRINKLED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRINKLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by wrinkles

Synonyms:

wrinkled; wrinkly

Context example:

tired travelers in wrinkled clothes

Similar:

unsmoothed (not having been made smooth by having hands run over the surface)

Also:

furrowed; rugged (having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface)

Antonym:

unwrinkled (not wrinkled or creased)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of linens or clothes) not ironed

Synonyms:

unironed; wrinkled

Context example:

wore unironed jeans

Similar:

drip-dry; permanent-press (used of fabrics that do not require ironing)

roughdried ((of laundry) dried but not ironed)

unpressed ((of clothing) not smoothed with heat)

Also:

rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)

 Context examples 

The Chinese Shar-Pei is a heavily wrinkled dog with a large head, though dogs with smaller heads and tighter looking skins do occur in this breed.

(Chinese Shar-Pei, NCI Thesaurus)

His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He stared now at the stranger with a wrinkled brow and the air of a man who is striving to stir his memory.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Poor fellow, maybe he is thinking, and I can see his face all wrinkled up with the concentration of his thoughts.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You must yourself have remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Dogue de Bordeaux is a short, stocky mastiff with a huge, heavy, broad, wrinkled head.

(Dogue-de-Bordeaux, NCI Thesaurus)

Therefore the hair stood up on end along his back and his lips wrinkled weakly in an attempt at a ferocious and intimidating snarl.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The Neapolitan Mastiff is a muscular dog with a rather rectangular body, massive head, and wrinkled face.

(Neapolitan Mastiff, NCI Thesaurus)

It was so wrinkled and shrunken and withered that it was difficult to say what it might have been.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Bullmastiff is very powerfully built with a broad wrinkled head and fairly short, square, dark muzzle.

(Bullmastiff, NCI Thesaurus)