made-up
adjective
ˈmād-ˈəp 
1
: fully manufactured
2
: marked by the use of makeup
3
: fancifully conceived or falsely devised
Synonyms
- chimerical
- chimeric
- fabulous
- fanciful
- fantasied
- fantastic
- fantastical
- fictional
- fictitious
- ideal
- imaginal
- imaginary
- imagined
- invented
- make-believe
- mythical
- mythic
- notional
- phantasmal
- phantasmic
- phantom
- pretend
- unreal
- visionary
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Word History
First Known Use
1725, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Kids Definition
made-up
adjective
ˈmād-ˈəp
: created from the imagination
a made-up excuse
made-up 1 of 2
adjective
as in fictitious
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 & Similar Words
Relevance
- fictitious
- imaginary
- fictional
- mythical
- mythic
- imagined
- fantasied
- fantastical
- invented
- fanciful
- ideal
- phantom
- unreal
- chimerical
- make-believe
- pretend
- theoretical
- notional
- imaginal
- phantasmal
- hypothetical
- fantastic
- phantasmic
- chimeric
- legendary
- fabulous
- romantic
- theoretic
- visionary
- unlikely
- abstract
- concocted
- unconvincing
- deceptive
- fabled
- unbelievable
- fictive
- fabricated
- conceived
- illusory
- visualized
- hallucinatory
- nonexistent
- pictured
- delusive
- phantasmagoric
- delusional
- envisioned
- phantasmagorical
- feigned
- envisaged
- daydreamlike
- inexistent
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- real
- actual
- existing
- true
- authentic
- genuine
- existent
- factual
- realistic
- verifiable
- believable
- convincing
- physical
- solid
- substantial
- material
- tangible
- corporeal
- verified
- palpable
made up
2 of 2verb
1
as in comprised
to be all the substance of the book is made up of 20 chapters Synonyms & Similar Words
- comprised
- composed
- constituted
- formed
- integrated
- embodied
- complemented
- incorporated
- completed
- incarnated
- personified
- supplemented
- filled (out)
- epitomized
- substantiated
- materialized
- fleshed (out)
2
as in devised
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
- devised
- concocted
- constructed
- invented
- designed
- came up with
- excogitated
- manufactured
- produced
- drummed up
- trumped up
- contrived
- cooked (up)
- thought (up)
- vamped (up)
- conceived
- fabricated
- envisioned
- hatched
- imagined
- dreamed
- visualized
- envisaged
- coined
- visioned
- fantasized
- daydreamed
- improvised
- extemporized
- dreamt
- pictured
- ad-libbed
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- reproduced
- copied
- mimicked
- cloned
- duplicated
- replicated
- imitated
- copycatted
- reduplicated
3
as in built
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
- built
- constructed
- assembled
- made
- created
- erected
- established
- set up
- designed
- put together
- manufactured
- produced
- put up
- pieced
- fabricated
- raised
- confected
- reared
- generated
- threw up
- began
- concocted
- rebuilt
- founded
- carpentered
- shaped
- organized
- originated
- forged
- fashioned
- reconstructed
- reedified
- molded
- hammered
- instituted
- invented
- inaugurated
- initiated
- imagined
- prefabricated
- handcrafted
- framed
- constituted
- devised
- fathered
- united
- coined
- conceived
- combined
- reassembled
- contrived
- innovated
- redeveloped
- cooked (up)
- retrofitted
- thought (up)
- retrofit
- rigged (up)
- jerry-built
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- took down
- destroyed
- struck
- dismantled
- flattened
- knocked down
- tore down
- ruined
- disassembled
- smashed
- shattered
- wrecked
- pulverized
- devastated
- dismembered
- exploded
- razed
- levelled
- leveled
- demounted
- ruinated
- blew up
- divided
- disengaged
- demolished
- separated
- detached
- pulled down
- disconnected
- disjoined
- disunited