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wrinkled

Syllables: wrink·led/ˈɹɪŋkl̩d/

wrinkled adjective: uneven, with many furrows and prominent points, often in reference to the skin or hide of animals. Also the simple past and past participle of wrinkle.

Adjective

wrinkled (comparative more wrinkled, superlative most wrinkled)

  1. 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
    Antonyms:
    unwrinkled

Also used as

wrinkled is also the simple past and past participle of wrinkle.

wrinkled meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic

wrinkled in Urdu

جھری ہوئی

wrinkled in Malayalam

ചുളിവുകളുള്ള

wrinkled in Kannada

ಸುಕ್ಕುಗಟ್ಟಿದ, ಸುಕ್ಕುಗಟ್ಟಿದೆ, ಸುಕ್ಕುಗಟ್ಟಿದವು

wrinkled in Arabic

having many wrinkles
مُغَضَّن muḡaḍḍan
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wrinkled in Vietnamese
nhăn, nhàu

Synonyms of wrinkled

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Antonyms

Forms of wrinkled

comparativemore wrinkled
superlativemost wrinkled

Words formed from wrinkled

Phrases with wrinkled

Questions about wrinkled

What does wrinkled mean?
Wrinkled means uneven, with many furrows and prominent points, often in reference to the skin or hide of animals.
What is wrinkled in Urdu?
Wrinkled in Urdu is جھری ہوئی. See Wrinkled meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is wrinkled?
Wrinkled is an adjective.
How do you pronounce wrinkled?
Wrinkled is pronounced /ˈɹɪŋkl̩d/.

Words near wrinkled in the dictionary

  1. wrings out one's sock
  2. Wrington
  3. wrinkle
  4. wrinkle-free
  5. wrinkleable
  6. wrinkled
  7. wrinkled hornbill
  8. wrinkled hornbills
  9. wrinkledly
  10. wrinkledness
  11. wrinkledy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wrinkled (page history and authors); wrinkled (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wrinkled (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wrinkled (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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