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Adjective: wrinkled  ring-kuld
  1. Marked by wrinkles
    "tired travellers in wrinkled clothes"
    - wrinkly
     
  2. (of linens or clothes) not ironed
    "a pile of wrinkled laundry"
    - unironed
Verb: wrinkle  ring-kul
  1. Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
    "wrinkle ones's lips"
    - purse
     
  2. Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
    "The dress got wrinkled"
    - ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp
     
  3. Make wrinkled or creased
    "wrinkle one's brow"
    - furrow, crease
     
  4. Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
    "This fabric won't wrinkle"
    - rumple, crumple, crease, crinkle

See also: drip-dry, furrowed, permanent-press, rough, roughdried, rugged, unpressed, unsmooth, unsmoothed

Type of: contract, fold, fold up, turn up

Antonym: unwrinkled

Encyclopedia: Wrinkle