wrinkle
wrinkle is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A winkle. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A winkle.
- noun. A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.
- noun. hence, any roughness; unevenness.
- noun. A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
- transitive verb. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
- transitive verb. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
- intransitive verb. To shrink into furrows and ridges.
- noun. a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
- noun. a minor difficulty
"they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"
- noun. a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
"his face has many lines"
"ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
- verb. become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
"This fabric won't wrinkle"
- verb. make wrinkled or creased
"furrow one's brow"
- verb. make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
"The dress got wrinkled"
"crease the paper like this to make a crane"
- verb. gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
"purse ones's lips"
Synonyms
crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam, crumple, rumple, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, purse
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wrinkle:
Common word forms
wrinkled, wrinkles, wrinkling, wrinkleful, wrinkleable, wrinkleless
Words from these letters
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