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unwrinkled en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + wrinkled.

Meanings

1. Without wrinkles.
   • His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth. 1835, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Knight of Provençe, and His Proposal”, in Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book II (The Revolution), page 184:
   • Where pity, to the mind conveyed In pleasure, is the darkest shade That Time, unwrinkled grandsire, flings From his smoothly gliding wings. 1832, William Wordsworth, “The Gleaner (Suggested by a picture)”, in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, volume 3, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, page 253:
   • Where hee beheld the Sea’s unwrinkled face, Smile again on him with alluring Grace. 1649, Leonard Willan (translator), The Phrygian Fabulist or, The Fables of Æsop, London: Nicolas Bourn, 101. “The Shipwrackct Shepherd,” p. 84, Emtie escaping, home return’d again; A few daies after to the same place came
   • 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. 1953, C. S. Forester, chapter 9, in Hornblower and the Atropos, London: Michael Joseph:
   • 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. 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 6, in The Grapes of Wrath, Pengin, published 1992, page 61:
   • an unwrinkled face

Forms

Deriveds

unwrinkledness

Synonyms

wrinkleless · wrinkle-free

unwrinkled en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + wrinkled.

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of unwrinkle
   form of unwrinkle