wrinkled
adj/ˈɹɪŋkl̩d/
1
Of a surface Uneven, with many furrows and prominent points, often in reference to the skin or hide of animals.
- As the ocean receded from the beach it left the sand appearing wrinkled.
- Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 334:
- Synonyms
- bewrinkled, creased, crinkly, purfly, pruny, rimpled, rouched, ruckly, rugate, rugose, rugous, rumpled, wrinkled, wrinklesome, wrinkly, writhled, wurlie, wurly
- Antonyms
- nonwrinkled, unwrinkled, wrinkle-free, wrinkleless
- Derived terms
- wrinkled hornbill
- Hypernyms
- elderly, deteriorated, rough
- Hyponyms
- merulioid, shrivelled, shriveled, weazened, wrizzled, wrizled