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best-built

best-built is the superlative form of well-built.

Meaning of well-built

Adjective

well-built (comparative better-built or more well-built, superlative best-built or most well-built)

  1. Constructed in a pleasing or sound manner.
    • The basics of a well-built garden1978, Ogden Tanner, Garden Construction, page 7
  2. Muscular and lean, having a body resembling that of an athlete.
    • James Lassiter was forty years old, a well-built, ruggedly handsome man in the prime of his life, in the best of health.1998, Nora Roberts, The Reef, page 3

Questions about best-built

What is best-built the superlative form of?
Best-built is the superlative form of well-built.

Words near best-built in the dictionary

  1. best-appointed
  2. best-before date
  3. best-before dates
  4. best-behaved
  5. best-brought-up
  6. best-built
  7. best-by date
  8. best-by dates
  9. best-case
  10. best-case scenario
  11. best-case scenarios

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Adapted from Wiktionary: best-built (page history and authors); well-built (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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