corrugated
/ˈkɒrəɡeɪtɪd
/adjective
(Of a material or surface) shaped into a series of parallel ridges and grooves so as to give added rigidity and strength: corrugated cardboard...
- Neumann proved this with many of his very realistic settings, where he uses secondhand cloths or materials like carton or corrugated iron.
- They have no land or houses, just low, corrugated iron structures that serve as houses.
- In 1954 I straightened out a piece of corrugated cardboard with a surface area of a square meter.
Synonyms
ridged, fluted, channelled, furrowed, grooved, crimped, folded, crinkled, crinkly, puckered, creased, wrinkled, wrinkly, crumpled, rumpled
technical striate, striated
Derivatives
corrugation
- Looking at the results, you can see how the originals were made: all their folds, flaws, corrugations and staples.
- Strangely, the pattern on my feet matched the corrugations on the soles of the boots.
- ‘It caused a slight bit of wrinkling or corrugation in the painting which caused a few cracks in the paint surface,’ Harr said yesterday.