construct

construct

verb

Definition of CONSTRUCT

1

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination <he managed to construct a theory that fits all the facts>

Synonyms concoct, construct, contrive, cook (up), devise, drum up, excogitate, fabricate, make up, manufacture, think (up), trump up, vamp (up)

Related Words coin, design, hatch, produce; daydream, dream, fantasize; conceive, envisage, envision, imagine, picture, vision, visualize; ad-lib, extemporize, improvise

Near Antonyms clone, copy, copycat, duplicate, imitate, mimic, reduplicate, replicate, reproduce

2

to form by putting together parts or materials <constructed a hydroelectric dam across the river>

Synonyms assemble, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, piece, put up, raise, rear, set up

Related Words carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape; prefabricate; begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate; constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up); reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, reedify [British], retrofit; jerry-build, rig (up), throw up; combine, unite

Near Antonyms demolish, destroy, devastate, flatten, level, pull down, pulverize, raze, ruin, ruinate, shatter, smash, wreck; blow up, explode; detach, disengage; disconnect, disjoin, disunite, divide, separate

Antonyms demount, disassemble, dismantle, dismember, knock down, strike, take down, tear down