Crinkly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Crinkly is an adjective meaning That crinkles.
Meaning
That crinkles.
More Meanings
- Having crinkles; wrinkly.
- (derogatory) An old person.
Example Sentences
Again there was that eerie, indefinable something in Cousin Jimmy’s voice or look that gave Emily a sudden crinkly feeling in her spine.
Himself, he was a little as if made from leather, with his yellow crinkly face, and crinkly reddish hair and beard; and neat folds slanting down his cheeks to the corners of his mouth, and his guttural and one-toned voice;[…]
He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
Word Forms
- crinklier
- crinkliest
- crinklies
Synonyms for crinkly
Depending on context, synonyms include bewrinkled, rugose, wrinklesome, antique, wrinkly, uneven.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wavy, uneven, wavelike, rippled, scrinchy, cracking.
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