unwrinkled

unwrinkled

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ wrinkled.

Adjective

unwrinkled (comparative more unwrinkled, superlative most unwrinkled)

1. Without wrinkles.

   an unwrinkled face

   • 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:

     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,

     Where pity, to the mind conveyed

     In pleasure, is the darkest shade

     That Time, unwrinkled grandsire, flings

     From his smoothly gliding wings.

   • 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 561215543, book II (The Revolution), page 184:

     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.

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

     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,

     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

wrinkle-free — see wrinkle-free

Verb

unwrinkled

1. simple past tense and past participle of unwrinkle