Synonyms of makes up

makes up

verb

present tense third-person singular of make up

1

as in comprises

to be all the substance of

the book is made up of 20 chapters

Synonyms & Similar Words

• comprises
• constitutes
• composes
• forms
• embodies
• incorporates
• fills (out)
• complements
• integrates
• epitomizes
• personifies
• supplements
• completes
• incarnates
• materializes
• substantiates
• fleshes (out)

2

as in devises

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination

she keeps making up excuses as to why she hasn't yet finished the project

Synonyms & Similar Words

• devises
• concocts
• constructs
• comes up with
• invents
• thinks (up)
• designs
• cooks (up)
• manufactures
• produces
• excogitates
• drums up
• trumps up
• contrives
• vamps (up)
• hatches
• conceives
• dreams
• coins
• fabricates
• imagines
• envisions
• visions
• fantasizes
• visualizes
• envisages
• daydreams
• improvises
• extemporizes
• pictures
• ad-libs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• copies
• reproduces
• mimics
• imitates
• replicates
• duplicates
• clones
• reduplicates
• copycats

3

as in builds

to form by putting together parts or materials

we'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked "some assembly required"

Synonyms & Similar Words

• builds
• constructs
• makes
• assembles
• sets up
• creates
• erects
• puts up
• puts together
• pieces
• confects
• manufactures
• produces
• establishes
• designs
• raises
• fabricates
• rears
• generates
• begins
• shapes
• concocts
• rebuilds
• originates
• thinks (up)
• founds
• institutes
• organizes
• fathers
• cooks (up)
• prefabricates
• invents
• constitutes
• initiates
• throws up
• imagines
• frames
• forges
• molds
• inaugurates
• coins
• hammers
• fashions
• rigs (up)
• reedifies
• innovates
• reconstructs
• devises
• conceives
• contrives
• combines
• carpenters
• reassembles
• handcrafts
• unites
• redevelops
• retrofits
• jerry-builds

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• takes down
• destroys
• dismantles
• tears down
• dismembers
• strikes
• knocks down
• levels
• smashes
• pulls down
• flattens
• blows up
• ruins
• wrecks
• shatters
• disassembles
• pulverizes
• devastates
• demounts
• explodes
• demolishes
• razes
• ruinates
• disengages
• disjoins
• detaches
• divides
• separates
• disconnects
• disunites