⛳ With small dents 😊 With cheek hollows

dimpled

5 2.8

With small hollows in the cheeks or chin that show when you smile

adjective
/ˈdɪmpəld/

: con hoyuelos

A chubby, dimpled, cheerful kind of smile.
dimpled smile

Examples

Les Cartoony, from a character design standpoint, he still has a big chin, big dimpled chin like Buzz Lightyear does.
His dimpled smile had been innocence itself.

Fiction book (1997)
Sort of dainty and dimpled and rosy.

Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Now, Harry L. Baker's dimpled, boyish face fills the screen.

Fiction book (1993)
Her dimpled fingers cover her features; the tiara sits sparkly and askew in her damp hair.

Fiction book (1992)
Her dimpled smile was seen by hundreds of thousands in the North Texas region each weekday from four to five P.M. on WFTA Channel 7 in Dallas.

Fiction book (2002)
Her dimpled cheeks always made her smile look even more charming.
When he laughed, his dimpled chin gave him a boyish appearance.
The baby had a dimpled smile that melted everyone's hearts.

Synonyms

dimply

vsdimpled

1 4.4

Having small round dents on the skin or surface

is mainly on the cheeks or chin and shows when smiling

dimpling

vsdimpled

4.7

Having small round dents on a surface, like cheeks or a golf ball

is a stable condition rather than a temporary showing

Compounds

dimpled chad

Archaic

2 9.9

A small piece of paper on a ballot pushed in with its corners still attached

How Pronounced

dimpled

5 2.8

smooth

224 1.0

Surface Forms

dimpled positive

Morphology

dimpled = dimple (transparent) = dimple + ed

Regular adjectival formation from the noun 'dimple' with -ed meaning 'having' or 'characterized by', so the meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

Dimpled comes from the simple idea of a small hollow or 'dip' in the skin, like the tiny bowl-shaped marks that appear on the cheeks when someone smiles. That's why a dimpled face shows small hollow marks on the cheeks or chin.