wrinkle

1. 1.

   a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface

   “his face has many lines”

   “ironing gets rid of most wrinkles”

   Synonymsfurrowcreasecrinkleseamline

   Broaderdepression

   Narrowercrow's footdermatoglyphicfrown lineline of lifeline of heartline of fate

   Part ofskin
2. 2.

   a minor difficulty

   “they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out”

   Broaderdifficulty
3. 3.

   a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)

   Broadermethod

Other forms of wrinkle

plural

wrinkles·

past tense

wrinkled·

present participle

wrinkling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wrinkle

What does wrinkle mean?

wrinkle means "gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wrinkle?

wrinkle has 2 syllables: wrin-kle. The stress falls on "wrin". In IPA it is /ˈɹɪŋkəl/.

What is another word for wrinkle?

Close synonyms include purse, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wrinkle a common word?

wrinkle is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.