Synonyms of wrinkle

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noun

1

as in furrow

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 & Similar Words

• furrow
• crease
• crinkle
• crimp
• pucker
• corrugation
• tuck
• loop
• pleat
• ply
• layer
• seam
• plait
• crow's-foot

2

as in innovation

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

the latest wrinkle in digital photography

Synonyms & Similar Words

• innovation
• invention
• product
• concoction
• creation
• coinage
• contrivance
• gadget
• brainchild
• device
• work
• design
• conception
• novelty
• contraption
• gizmo
• gismo
• dream
• vision
• origination
• picture
• imagining
• fantasy
• phantasy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

wrinkle

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verb

1

as in to furrow

to develop creases or folds

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• furrow
• crease
• fold
• crinkle
• double
• rumple
• crumple
• collapse

2

as in to crumple

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

sitting down on the bedspread wrinkled it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crumple
• scrunch
• fold
• crinkle
• crease
• pucker
• ripple
• rumple
• furrow
• ruffle
• crisp
• crimp
• knit
• pleat
• corrugate
• ruck
• contract
• muss (up)
• mess (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• flatten
• smooth
• straighten
• iron out
• iron
• press
• even
• uncrumple
• unfold
• smoothen
• tidy
• neaten