Synonyms of built

built 1 of 2

adjective

as in stacked

Related Words

• stacked
• ample
• ripe
• replete
• shapely
• well-endowed
• curvaceous
• voluptuous
• plump
• curvy
• buxom
• round
• beefy
• busty
• obese
• bosomy
• full
• chubby
• statuesque
• rotund
• overweight
• pudgy
• corn-fed
• bulky
• corpulent
• chesty
• fleshy
• tubby
• plumpish
• zaftig
• stocky
• gross
• portly
• stout
• lardy
• burly
• thickset
• thick
• blubbery
• chunky
• fat
• full-figured
• Rubenesque
• squat
• heavyset
• podgy
• brawny
• hefty
• dumpy
• weighty
• heavy
• husky
• stubby
• roly-poly
• potbellied
• Junoesque
• paunchy
• flabby
• hippy
• endomorphic
• soft

Dissimilar Words

• angular
• pinched
• wasted
• gaunt
• skeletal
• bony
• lanky
• rawboned
• sinewy
• slight
• lank
• puny
• scrawny
• emaciated
• haggard
• spindly
• reedy
• rangy
• weedy
• lean
• cadaverous
• scraggy
• thin
• willowy
• svelte
• waspish
• stringy
• slender
• spare
• twiggy
• skinny
• slim
• anorexic
• sylphlike
• spindling
• ectomorphic

built

2 of 2

verb

past tense of build

as in constructed

to form by putting together parts or materials

he spent hours building a model airplane from a kit

Synonyms & Similar Words

• constructed
• assembled
• made
• created
• erected
• designed
• manufactured
• established
• produced
• fabricated
• pieced
• reared
• made up
• raised
• rebuilt
• set up
• put together
• put up
• confected
• generated
• concocted
• shaped
• founded
• fashioned
• molded
• invented
• forged
• organized
• originated
• began
• reconstructed
• initiated
• prefabricated
• instituted
• devised
• inaugurated
• framed
• conceived
• hammered
• constituted
• coined
• handcrafted
• carpentered
• reassembled
• imagined
• combined
• fathered
• innovated
• contrived
• retrofitted
• cooked (up)
• thought (up)
• redeveloped
• threw up
• reedified
• united
• rigged (up)
• jerry-built

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dismantled
• destroyed
• struck
• disassembled
• demolished
• ruined
• wrecked
• flattened
• shattered
• knocked down
• razed
• smashed
• tore down
• dismembered
• leveled
• pulverized
• took down
• exploded
• pulled down
• devastated
• demounted
• divided
• detached
• blew up
• separated
• ruinated
• disengaged
• disconnected
• disjoined
• disunited

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of built

Adjective

Enter into the open great room, which has a gas fireplace, dining area, and handsome built-ins. — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2019

The department was built 30 years ago and has not been substantially expanded even as emergency medicine has become more sophisticated. — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 29 Oct. 2019

But Iran, which not only built way stations along the route but has spent millions over the last five years renovating Shiite shrines in the Iraqi cities of Karbala and Najaf, also took credit. — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2019

Verb

Wait, so there is a room built for people not in a couple to share it. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 8 July 2026

Cursor, which will be acquired by Elon Musk's SpaceX for $60 billion, built its Composer 2 model using Chinese AI model Kimi, which was developed by Moonshot AI. — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 8 July 2026

The largest digital camera ever built is starting to capture images of unseen corners of the universe. — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026

Industrial policy is now a primary input into where infrastructure gets built, which technologies receive sustained capital support, and which supply chains get managed against disruption. — Nili Gilbert, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

How David Senra built the podcast the world’s most powerful CEOs can’t stop listening to. — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 7 July 2026

Although Edwards said to transform MSG into a wedding would take more than a week, Swift could treat it like the Eras Tour where the set was built and constructed for rehearsals at Rock Lititz in Pennsylvania. — Bryan West, USA Today, 1 July 2026

Many structures are built with substandard materials, and safety regulations are frequently ignored to reduce costs. — CNN Money, 1 July 2026