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better-built

better-built is the comparative 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 better-built

What is better-built the comparative form of?
Better-built is the comparative form of well-built.

Words near better-built in the dictionary

  1. better'n
  2. better-aimed
  3. better-appointed
  4. better-behaved
  5. better-brought-up
  6. better-built
  7. better-connected
  8. better-defined
  9. better-developed
  10. better-formed
  11. better-groomed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: better-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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