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Synonyms & Antonyms of made-up
(Entry 1 of 2)
not real and existing only in the imagination
- the bogeyman was one of those made-up monsters whose sole purpose was to threaten children
Synonyms for made-up
- chimerical
- (also chimeric),
- fabulous,
- fanciful,
- fantasied,
- fantastic
- (also fantastical),
- fictional,
- fictitious,
- ideal,
- imaginal,
- imaginary,
- imagined,
- invented,
- make-believe,
- mythical
- (or mythic),
- notional,
- phantasmal,
- phantasmic,
- phantom,
- pretend,
- unreal,
- visionary
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made up
verb
past tense of make up
Synonyms & Antonyms of made up (Entry 2 of 2)
1
to be all the substance of
- the book is made up of 20 chapters
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2
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
- she keeps making up excuses as to why she hasn't yet finished the project
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3
to form by putting together parts or materials
- we'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked "some assembly required"
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- carpentered,
- fashioned,
- forged,
- framed,
- hammered,
- handcrafted,
- manufactured,
- molded,
- produced,
- shaped
- reassembled,
- rebuilt,
- reconstructed,
- redeveloped,
- reedified
- [British],
- retrofitted
- (or retrofit)
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“Made-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/made-up. Accessed 30 Nov. 2021.
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The first known use of made-up was in 1725
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