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

The real-time infrastructure is built and in daily commercial use. — John Drake, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Homeland Security has indicated that getting the wall built is a priority. — ABC News, 22 July 2026

There’s about 400,000 square feet of office space currently being built. — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 22 July 2026

Back-to-back five-inning outings added to old complaints that maybe he’s not built to last beyond 95 pitches. — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 22 July 2026

The house was built during the city’s first development boom in the early 1920s, when buildings like the Freedom Tower, the Biltmore Hotel and the Olympia Theater were constructed. — Delia Rose Sauer, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

And they would be newly required to obtain a special use permit from the city to be built. — Ilana Arougheti july 14, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026

In Publius, Reid Wilson lays out the polling on data centers in states where they’re being built, finding a surge of public opinion against them. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 14 July 2026

The New York Theatre Workshop had built an entire festival around the show. — Josie Fischels, NPR, 14 July 2026