Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
made-up \made-up\ adj.
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formed or conceived by the imagination; not true; as, a made-up story.
Syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious, invented.
having been paved. [British]
marked by the use of cosmetic makeup; as, heavily made-up eyes.
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formed by fitting or joining components together.
Syn: assembled, built(prenominal).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context transitive English) To make up the whole; to constitute. 2 invented or fabricated 3 changed by the application of cosmetics 4 arranged or put together 5 (context British regional English) delighted, pleased, thrilled alt. 1 (context transitive English) To make up the whole; to constitute. 2 invented or fabricated 3 changed by the application of cosmetics 4 arranged or put together 5 (context British regional English) delighted, pleased, thrilled
WordNet
adj. formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story" [syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious, invented]
having been paved
marked by the use of makeup; "heavily made-up eyes"
formed by fitting or joining components together [syn: assembled, built(a)]
Usage examples of "made-up".
I looked at the incredibly lovely girl in the mirror, she bedecked in a rope of red silk, made-up, perfumed vulnerable, soft, with armlets and bracelets, golden beads intertwined in the Turian collar.
Sadra Rosales was nursing a margarita, talking to her best friend, Flavia, a slightly overweight and overly made-up woman with dyed red hair.
Face carefully made-up, hair short and neatly combed, Gerda was still pretty in a severe spinsterish style.
So half an hour later, bathed and dressed in the pink outfit, her hair brushed and plaited, her face nicely made-up, Beatrice sat down to her breakfast.
Her large, dark rimmed and heavily made-up eyes had a dull furtiveness about them that told of too many cheap hustles and too many rough pairs of hands.
Any made-up language must be characterless and lifeless -- look at Esperanto, etc.
For World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the UN FAO repeating or arbitrarily modifying Iraq's made-up numbers, see Cockburn and Cockburn, Out of the Ashes, p.
But now they wore masks and used made-up names, just like the comics rd read in the war and thought were so silly.
Nonetheless such boundaries must be made-up for practical purposes, there being no demarcations in reality.
Windy Brees suddenly wafted into Hammer's office with an excited look on her made-up face and a UPS package clutched in her bright red-painted fingernails.
She was so impeccably made-up she looked as if she'd just emerged from a beauty salon.
Being fascinated with mythology and folk tales, they settle on a world where every myth, fairy tale, and legend is literally true, centering their attention on the made-up city of San Cibola, just north of San Francisco.
There was a door immediately on my right, which probably opened onto a coat closet, and another a little farther down, which led into a small bedroom with a neatly made-up double bed.
There are many made-up and compound words in the story -- any word that was questionable was looked up in the DT.
At last, though, the kids quieted, playing a made-up zero-g game with a red squeeze ball and Dixie cup.