unwrinkled
English
    
    
Adjective
    
unwrinkled (comparative more unwrinkled, superlative most unwrinkled)
- 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, volume 3, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, page 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, 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, chapter 6, in The Grapes of Wrath, Pengin, published 1992, page 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, chapter 9, in Hornblower and the Atropos, London: Michael Joseph:- 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
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