Synonyms of constructing

constructing

verb

present participle of construct

1

as in devising

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination

he managed to construct a theory that fits all the facts

Synonyms & Similar Words

• devising
• concocting
• inventing
• designing
• producing
• manufacturing
• thinking (up)
• cooking (up)
• fabricating
• contriving
• coming up with
• drumming up
• excogitating
• hatching
• making up
• conceiving
• envisioning
• imagining
• visualizing
• trumping up
• dreaming
• vamping (up)
• coining
• improvising
• envisaging
• fantasizing
• daydreaming
• visioning
• picturing
• extemporizing
• ad-libbing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reproducing
• copying
• duplicating
• imitating
• replicating
• mimicking
• cloning
• reduplicating
• copycatting

2

as in building

to form by putting together parts or materials

constructed a hydroelectric dam across the river

Synonyms & Similar Words

• building
• assembling
• erecting
• making
• creating
• designing
• establishing
• fabricating
• producing
• manufacturing
• piecing
• rebuilding
• raising
• rearing
• generating
• confecting
• making up
• concocting
• organizing
• reconstructing
• fashioning
• setting up
• putting together
• shaping
• inventing
• putting up
• forging
• devising
• framing
• initiating
• molding
• originating
• imagining
• inaugurating
• instituting
• hammering
• beginning
• constituting
• innovating
• prefabricating
• carpentering
• conceiving
• handcrafting
• coining
• combining
• retrofitting
• contriving
• founding
• reassembling
• redeveloping
• fathering
• thinking (up)
• cooking (up)
• uniting
• reedifying
• throwing up
• rigging (up)
• jerry-building

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dismantling
• destroying
• striking
• disassembling
• demolishing
• wrecking
• dismembering
• tearing down
• flattening
• taking down
• smashing
• ruining
• razing
• knocking down
• pulverizing
• shattering
• devastating
• leveling
• exploding
• pulling down
• dividing
• demounting
• separating
• detaching
• blowing up
• disengaging
• ruinating
• disconnecting
• disjoining
• disuniting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of constructing

Conservation development is a method of constructing lots and homes closer together on smaller plots, the program states. — Marc Hayot, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026

Fielder has made a career out of constructing elaborate social experiments, like building exact replicas of people’s homes and hiring actors to impersonate their loved ones on The Rehearsal. — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 27 Oct. 2026

LeBescond will be busy, as well, constructing a traditional crocambouche live. — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026

For textile biotechnology companies, the service could provide access to industrial fermentation equipment without the upfront expense of constructing a dedicated facility. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026

Meanwhile, environmental activists have been demanding the cancellation of permissions given to AI data centers in Visakhapatnam, where Google is constructing its $15 billion project. — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

Around 30 animators worked across 40 tiny sets, painstakingly constructing a feature-length film frame by frame. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026

That includes plans for a ballroom at the former site of the White House East Wing, restoring and renaming the Kennedy Center, and constructing a towering Triumphal Arch. — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 20 Oct. 2026

Meanwhile, Brigham’s parent, Mass General Brigham, has launched its own rival cancer institute and is constructing new buildings and renovating other spaces to compete. — Marin Wolf — Boston Globe, STAT, 20 Oct. 2026