different between unwrinkled vs wrinkle

English

Etymology

From un- +? wrinkled.

Adjective

unwrinkled (comparative more unwrinkled, superlative most unwrinkled)

1. Without wrinkles.
   • 1649, Leonard Willan (translator), The Phrygian Fabulist or, The Fables of Æsop, London: Nicolas Bourn, 101. “The Shipwrackct Shepherd,” p. 84,^[1]

     Emtie escaping, home return’d again;

     A few daies after to the same place came:

     Where hee beheld the Sea’s unwrinkled face,

     Smile again on him with alluring Grace.

   • 1832, William Wordsworth, “The Gleaner (Suggested by a picture)” in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Volume 3, p. 253,^[2]

     Where pity, to the mind conveyed

     In pleasure, is the darkest shade

     That Time, unwrinkled grandsire, flings

     From his smoothly gliding wings.

   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Pengin, 1992, Chapter Six, p. 61,^[3]

     Muley’s face was smooth and unwrinkled, but it wore the truculent look of a bad child’s, the mouth held tight and small, the little eyes half scowling, half petulant.

   • 1953, C. S. Forester, Hornblower and the Atropos, London: Michael Joseph, Chapter 9,^[4]

     The lieutenant of the watch, his telescope quite dazzling with polished brass and pipe-clayed twine, wore spotless and unwrinkled white trousers; the buttons on his well-fitting coat winked in the sunshine.

   Synonyms: wrinkle-free, wrinkleless

Translations

Verb

unwrinkled

1. simple past tense and past participle of unwrinkle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????kl?/
• Rhymes: -??k?l
• Hyphenation: wrink?le

Etymology 1

Probably from stem of Old English gewrinclod.

Alternative forms

• wrincle (obsolete)

Noun

wrinkle (plural wrinkles)

1. A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
2. A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.

3. A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.

4. A twist on something existing; a novel difference.

Translations

Verb

wrinkle (third-person singular simple present wrinkles, present participle wrinkling, simple past and past participle wrinkled)

1. (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
2. (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.

3. (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To sneer (at).
   • 1604, John Marston, Parasitaster, or The Fawn

     Ther's some weakenes in your brother you wrinkle at

Related terms

• unwrinkled
• wrinkle-free
• wrinkly

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

wrinkle (plural wrinkles)

1. (US, dialect) A winkle

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “wrinkle”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Winkler