made-upEnglishOxford English Thesaurusmade-up adjective 1 a made-up story: invented, fabricated, trumped-up, concocted, devised, manufactured, fictitious, fictional, false, untrue, unreal, sham, specious, spurious, bogus, apocryphal, imaginary, mythical. 2 a heavily made-up woman: painted, done up, powdered, rouged.made-up Oxford Dictionary of English