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adjective

ˈmād-ˈəp How to pronounce made-up (audio)
Definition of made-upnext
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

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made up

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verb

past tense of make up
1
as in comprised
to be all the substance of the book is made up of 20 chapters

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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

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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"

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Recent Examples of made-up
Adjective
To answer these questions, a group of 15 participants made-up of university students, recent graduates, and young adults, played the four online games mentioned—Valorant, Counter-Strike 2, Overwatch 2, and Fortnite. — Mia Taylor, Parents, 16 Jan. 2025 Telling lies to appease a user even if a false or made-up answer is provided. — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for made-up
  1. fictitious
  2. comprised
  3. devised
  4. built
  5. imaginary
  6. composed
  7. fictional
  8. constituted
Adjective
  • Putin cannot refuse a ceasefire, without losing the fictitious moral high ground.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The report did not mention any instances of dead or fictitious employees getting paid.
    — Laura Doan, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2025
Definition of fictitious
Verb
  • Carter’s look comprised a corset top with crystal embellishments and matching pants featuring a slit around the knees to improve her mobility during the performance.
    — Renan Botelho, WWD, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Each unit comprised a photon transceiver and a digital processing unit, and the devices were hooked together via 10 km of dedicated optical fiber.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of comprised
Verb
  • That should become a standard part of the chain-of-thoughts being devised by AI.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Similarly, Ping’s team devised a system that pauses the pH-modulating current just long enough for a graphene transistor to record accurate readings without interference.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of devised
Verb
  • As if the children of the Jews who have built so much of and in Chicago were merely an afterthought.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The Teddy Bear, velocipedes, and the Erector Set was first marketed in 1913, as a toy that could be put together as one thing, taken apart and built into something else.
    — Dawn Mitchell, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of built
Adjective
  • Unlike the more familiar real numbers – positive and negative integers, fractions, square roots, cube roots and even numbers such as pi – complex numbers have an imaginary component.
    — William Ross, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The system that most captured his imagination was an imaginary device that had launched the field of computer science, the Turing machine.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of imaginary
Verb
  • Every product was determined to have excelled in each category by our editorial team, which is composed of in-house writers and editors as well as contributors—along with special consideration from dermatologists.
    — Jenny Berg, Allure, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The monument is composed of rocks transported from far and wide—impressive feats of shipping for its Neolithic builders.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of composed
Adjective
  • Set in a fictional recreation of the Secunderabad area that gives the film its title, early glimpses have already generated substantial buzz among Indian cinema fans.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
  • That is a lot of dead fictional petty officers being found by that white rail fence.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of fictional
Verb
  • The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO), working with police and military investigators, is probing whether Yoon's actions constituted rebellion.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In a forum on Eleven Warriors, a popular Buckeyes fan website, a commenter recently polled fellow fans about what constituted success this season.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2024
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