Synonyms of making up

making up

verb

present participle of make up

1

as in comprising

to be all the substance of

the book is made up of 20 chapters

Synonyms & Similar Words

• comprising
• composing
• constituting
• forming
• filling (out)
• integrating
• incorporating
• embodying
• supplementing
• fleshing (out)
• complementing
• personifying
• completing
• incarnating
• epitomizing
• substantiating
• materializing

2

as in devising

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

3

as in building

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"

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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