made-up
/meɪdˈʌp
/adjective
1Wearing make-up: a heavily made-up woman...
- While you may feel like it would be a crime against society to leave home without a fully made-up face, makeup and working out mix like oil and water.
- Unlike the rest of us, who looked very overly made-up in our stage makeup, she looked natural.
- According to this overly made-up woman, the least bit of makeup on us (as well as giving us cancer, in her opinion) made us harlots.
Synonyms
painted, done up, powdered, rouged
2Invented; not true: a made-up story...
- Fred plays an international con man, looking for easy prey in ‘Patria,’ a made-up country in South America that bears a suspicious resemblance to the Swiss Alps.
- Ron is all faux pretense and made-up mischievousness.
- The characters are too made-up and comfortingly false.
Synonyms
invented, fabricated, trumped-up, concocted, devised, manufactured, fictitious, fictional, false, untrue, unreal, sham, specious, spurious, bogus, apocryphal, imaginary, mythical
3(Of a meal or drink) prepared in advance of sale: profitability calls for selling made-up products like filled rolls...
- We got home bearing made-up sandwiches for lunch and it wasn't long before I was putting my head down on my pillow for a well-earned doze.
- Take made up lunches to work - don't buy.
4(Of a road) surfaced with a material such as asphalt.It was evening and I had reached the end of the made-up road, so there was no question but that I should stop before tackling the rough tracks in daylight....
- The race will stick to made-up roads and MAFF has given permission for it to go ahead despite the foot and mouth crisis.
- safety cab
- safety cage
- safety car
- safety catch
- safety chain
- safety committee
- safety-critical
- safety curtain
- safety deposit
- safety distance
- safety engineer
- safety engineering
- safety factor
- safety film
- safety first
- safety-firster
- safety fund
- safety fuse
- safety glass
- safety harness
- safety house
- safetying
- safety island
- safety isle
- safety lamp