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wrinkle

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of wrinkle

1 a small fold in a soft and otherwise smooth surface

  • the old woman's face creased into wrinkles as she smiled
  • the curtains cascaded onto the floor in ripples and wrinkles
Synonyms of wrinkle

crease, crimp, crinkle, furrow
Words Related to wrinkle

corrugation, layer, loop, plait, pleat, ply, pucker, seam, tuck

crow's-foot

2 something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination

  • the latest wrinkle in digital photography
Synonyms of wrinkle

brainchild, coinage, concoction, contrivance, creation, innovation, invention
Words Related to wrinkle

contraption, device, gadget, gizmo (also gismo), novelty

design, product, work

dream, fantasy (also phantasy), picture, vision

conception, imagining, origination
Near Antonyms of wrinkle

carbon copy, clone, copy, dupe, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, imitation, reduplication, replica, replication, reproduction

wrinkle

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of wrinkle

1 to develop creases or folds

  • if you don't fold clothes promptly after drying, they'll wrinkle
Synonyms of wrinkle

crease, crinkle, furrow, rumple
Words Related to wrinkle

collapse, crumple, double, fold

2 to create (as by crushing) an irregular mass of creases in

  • sitting down on the bedspread wrinkled it
Synonyms of wrinkle

crinkle, crumple, rumple, scrunch
Words Related to wrinkle

corrugate, crease, crimp, fold, pleat, pucker, ruck

crisp, ripple, ruffle

contract, furrow, knit

mess (up), muss (up)
Near Antonyms of wrinkle

even, iron, press, straighten

unfold

neaten, tidy
Antonyms of wrinkle

flatten, iron out, smooth, smoothen, uncrumple

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