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Synonyms for rugose

  • adjective

Most common

wrinkled crumpled wrinkly rumpled coarse jagged rugulate rugosan

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Wrinkled

wrinkled, crumpled, rumpled, wrinkly, creased, crinkly, wurly UK, pruny, bewrinkled, ruckly, rouched, rimpled, rugate, rugous dated, purfly dated rare, writhled dated

2. Rough

rough, harsh, jagged, coarse, squarrose

Other

rugulate, rugosan

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation.

  2. adj. 2

    Rugged, rough, unrefined.

Example sentences

  • wrinkled The shirt that you're wearing is really wrinkled.
  • crumpled Tom took a crumpled chocolate bar from his pocket.
  • wrinkly Ziri was getting old and wrinkly.
  • rumpled She doesn’t want Nuja to go to school all rumpled.
  • coarse Her skin is coarse from years of working outdoors.
  • jagged I cut my fringe myself, and now it's all jagged.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
rugosefalling
wrinkledrising
crumpledrising
wrinklyrising
rumpledrising
coarsefalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
rough1, harsh1, wurly, pruny
6 letters
coarse1, jagged2, ruckly, rugate, rugous, purfly
7 letters
wrinkly, creased, rumpled2, crinkly, rouched, rimpled, rugosan
8 letters
wrinkled2, crumpled2, writhled, rugulate
9 letters
squarrose
10 letters
bewrinkled

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (jagged2 = 2 syllables).