made upadjective
uk/ˌmeɪd ˈʌp/us/ˌmeɪd ˈʌp/made up adjective (APPEARANCE)
[ after verb ] wearing make-up:
She's always very heavily made up (= wearing a lot of make-up).
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Make-up & skin care
- argan oil
- barrier cream
- BB cream
- beauty
- blusher
- compact
- eye shadow
- face cream
- fake tan
- lip balm
- lip gloss
- lippy
- lipsalve
- mascara
- powder
- rouge
- shea butter
- slap
- SPF
- sunblock
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made up adjective (INVENTED)
A made-up story or report has been invented and is untrue:
[ before noun ] made-up stories
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True, real, false, and unreal
- actual
- actuality
- actually
- all that glitters is not gold idiom
- apocryphal
- fairy tale
- faithful
- false
- falsely
- fictional
- glitter
- gritty
- nominal
- pretend
- proper
- properly
- properly speaking idiom
- pukka
- realistic
- well founded
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made up adjective (HAPPY)
[ after verb ] UK Northern English informal very happy about something good that has happened:
I was made up when she offered me the job.
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Feeling pleasure and happiness
- (as) pleased as Punch idiom
- be as high as a kite idiom
- be dancing in the streets idiom
- be floating on air idiom
- be full of the joys of spring idiom
- be in seventh heaven idiom
- breezy
- brighten
- contented
- dance
- delighted
- ecstatic
- elated
- incandescent
- jolly
- jubilant
- jump for joy idiom
- light-hearted
- look/feel like a million dollars idiom
- loved up
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