unwrinkled

comparative more unwrinkled · superlative most unwrinkled

1. Without wrinkles.

   an unwrinkled face

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   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

   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

   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

   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

   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

   Synonyms: wrinkle-free, wrinkleless

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of unwrinkle