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made-upadjective not real and existing only in the imaginationthe bogeyman was one of those made-up monsters whose sole purpose was to threaten children 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 fabled, legendary, romanticabstract, hypothetical, theoretical(also theoretic)unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikelyconceived, envisaged, envisioned, pictured, visualizeddaydreamlike, deceptive, delusional, delusive, hallucinatory, illusory, phantasmagoric(or phantasmagorical)concocted, fabricated, feigned, fictiveinexistent, nonexistent actual, existent, existing, real authentic, genuine, truefactual, verifiable, verifiedbelievable, convincing, realisticcorporeal, material, physical, solid, substantialpalpable, tangible made upverbpast tense of make upto be all the substance ofthe book is made up of 20 chapters composed, comprised, constituted, formed embodied, epitomized, incarnated, incorporated, integrated, materialized, personified, substantiatedcomplemented, completed, supplementedfilled (out), fleshed (out) to create or think of by clever use of the imaginationshe keeps making up excuses as to why she hasn't yet finished the project concocted, constructed, contrived, cooked (up), devised, drummed up, excogitated, fabricated, invented, manufactured, thought (up), trumped up, vamped (up) coined, designed, hatched, produceddaydreamed, dreamed(or dreamt), fantasizedconceived, envisaged, envisioned, imagined, pictured, visioned, visualizedad-libbed, extemporized, improvised came up with cloned, copied, copycatted, duplicated, imitated, mimicked, reduplicated, replicated, reproduced to form by putting together parts or materialswe'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked "some assembly required" assembled, built, confected, constructed, erected, fabricated, made, pieced, put up, raised, reared, set up carpentered, fashioned, forged, framed, hammered, handcrafted, manufactured, molded, produced, shapedprefabricatedbegan, coined, created, generated, inaugurated, initiated, innovated, invented, originatedconstituted, established, fathered, founded, instituted, organizedconceived, concocted, contrived, cooked (up), designed, devised, imagined, thought (up)reassembled, rebuilt, reconstructed, redeveloped, reedified(British), retrofitted(or retrofit)jerry-built, rigged (up), threw upcombined, united put together demounted, disassembled, dismantled, dismembered, knocked down, struck, took down, tore down demolished, destroyed, devastated, flattened, leveled(or levelled), pulled down, pulverized, razed, ruinated, ruined, shattered, smashed, wreckedblew up, explodeddetached, disengageddisconnected, disjoined, disunited, divided, separated in 1725 |