made-up
made-up
Definition
made·-up (-up′)
adjective
- put together; arranged a made-up page of type
- invented; fabricated; false a made-up story
- with cosmetics applied
made-up
Synonyms
made-up
modif.
made-up
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- range: The Center is equipped with extensive computational facilities made-up of a wide range of traditional and state of the art supercomputing systems.
Modifies a noun
- date: The number of shares of each class held by each member of the company at the made-up date of the annual return.
- story: Fourthly, the events relating to the birth of Jesus cannot be dismissed as made-up stories based on passages from the Old Testament.
- language: Furby says its name and then begins to talk in a made-up language called Furbish.
- word: Be aware, too, of unusual or made-up words, which again may be spoken in unexpected form by a screen reader.
- story: Non-fiction means all those wonderful books that are not a story - not a made-up story.
- name: Large quantities of prepay handsets appear on single invoices with made-up customer names at the top of the invoice.
Modifying Another Word
- heavily: Even on her big day, her fresh face couldn't be farther from the heavily made-up cover girls of bridal magazines.
- fully: Passengers will arrive in fully made-up cabins with fresh towels and bed linen.
- obviously: Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, the Virgin Birth, all those miracles - they are all so obviously made-up.
- largely: Some archeological testing of the site for the new structure found that it was largely made-up ground of the last century or so.
- even: I like learning new languages, even made-up ones.
- not: Walkways - which are not made-up footpaths - increase the chance of trips, slips or falls.
Used with adjective complement
