built
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɪlt/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪlt
Adjective
built (not comparable)
- (informal) well-built, muscular or toned.
- Wow! Your new boyfriend's really built.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:strapping or Thesaurus:voluptuous
Antonyms
Related terms
- air-built
- asbuilt
- as built
- as-built
- built different
- built environment
- builtin
- built-in
- built-in function
- built-in obsolescence
- built-in type
- built like a brick outhouse
- built like a brick shipyard
- built like a shit brickhouse
- builtscape
- built up
- built-up
- built-up roof
- carvel-built
- clench-built
- clinch-built
- clincher-built
- clinker-built
- cloud-built
- coach-built, coachbuilt
- composite built
- custom-built
- fair-built
- half-built
- handbuilt
- homebuilt
- in-built
- jerry built
- jerry-built
- newbuilt
- nonbuilt
- prebuilt
- purpose-built
- scratch-built
- self-built
- stonebuilt
- student-built
- well built
Translations
Noun
built (plural builts)
- (obsolete) Shape; build; form of structure.
- the built of a ship
- 1764, Thomas Reid, Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense:
- The sailor sees the burthen, the built, and the distance of a ship at sea, while she is a great way off.
Related terms
Verb
built
Anagrams
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
built m
- genitive singular of balt