made-up
adjective
[ meɪdˈʌp ]
• wearing make-up.
• "a heavily made-up woman"
• invented; not true.
• "a made-up story"
Similar:
invented,
fabricated,
trumped-up,
concocted,
devised,
manufactured,
fictitious,
fictional,
false,
untrue,
unreal,
sham,
specious,
spurious,
bogus,
apocryphal,
imaginary,
mythical,
• (of a meal or drink) prepared in advance of sale.
• "profitability calls for selling made-up products like filled rolls"
• (of a road) surfaced with a material such as asphalt.
be made up
• be delighted.
• "we're made up about the baby"
• be assured of success; be lucky.
• "what with the high prices since the war started, we'll be made up if it lasts"
make up
• invent a story or plan.
• "she enjoyed making up tall tales"
Similar:
invent,
fabricate,
concoct,
dream up,
think up,
hatch,
trump up,
devise,
manufacture,
formulate,
frame,
construct,
coin,
cook up,
• (of parts) compose or constitute a whole.
• "women make up 56 per cent of the student body"
• compensate for something lost, missed, or deficient.
• "I'll make up the time tomorrow"
Similar:
atone for,
make amends for,
compensate for,
make recompense for,
make reparation for,
make redress for,
make restitution for,
expiate,
requite,
offset,
counterbalance,
counterweigh,
counteract,
balance,
neutralize,
cancel out,
even up,
redeem,
• put together or prepare something from parts or ingredients.
• "make up the mortar to a consistency that can be moulded in the hands"
• be reconciled after a quarrel.
• "let's kiss and make up"
Similar:
be friends again,
bury the hatchet,
declare a truce,
make peace,
forgive and forget,
shake hands,
become reconciled,
settle one's differences,
mend fences,
call it quits,
• apply cosmetics to oneself or another.
• "ladies will feel like Marlene Dietrich, making themselves up at the dressing tables"
Similar:
apply make-up/cosmetics to,
powder,
rouge,
put on one's face,
do one's face,
paint one's face,
tart oneself up,
do oneself up,
apply one's warpaint,
doll oneself up,
