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madeup

madeup is the alternative form of made-up.

Meaning of made-up

Adjective

made-up (comparative more made-up, superlative most made-up)

  1. Invented or fabricated.
    • He told me a made-up version of the events, but I demanded the truth.
  2. Changed by the application of cosmetics; wearing make-up.
    • a freshly made-up clown
  3. Arranged or put together.
    • The newly made-up front page had to be changed as the last-minute news arrived.
  4. (UK, regional) Delighted, pleased, thrilled.
    • I was made-up when the local team won.
  5. Built up (to a higher level).
    • All three structures were sited on made-up ground, to depths up to about 20 ft., which had been deposited to form the railway embankments.1952 December, “Brighton Line Resignalling, Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 830

Forms of madeup

comparativemore madeup
superlativemost madeup

Questions about madeup

What is madeup the alternative form of?
Madeup is the alternative form of made-up.

Words near madeup in the dictionary

  1. Maderos
  2. Maders
  3. mades
  4. madescent
  5. madest
  6. madeup
  7. Madewell
  8. Madewells
  9. madge
  10. madges
  11. Madgett

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Adapted from Wiktionary: madeup (page history and authors); made-up (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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