makeup

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable, usually) An item's composition.
2. (countable, uncountable, usually) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.
3. (uncountable, usually) Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up.
4. (uncountable, usually) A test given to students allowing them to repeat failed material.
5. (uncountable, usually) In a NIMCRUT, an amount distributed from the trust's income in subsequent years to make up for a present shortfall.

Verb

Alternative form of make up (“(ambitransitive) to put makeup on (someone or something)”).

Synonyms

cosmetics

composition

make-up

constitution

cosmetic

rouge

adornment

make

structure

war paint

apply cosmetics

physical composition

embellishment

get-up

make up

paint

consist

construction

🚧

disguise

dress

👗

embody

equipment

execution

fabrication

face

fiction

guise

indemnify

invention

layout

making-up

manufacture

mixture

on

🔛

ornament

outfit

physique

production

put through

redress

addition

reimburse

repeat

🔁

replay

replenishment

rerun

solution

spackle

supplement

supply

Translations

maquillage

maquillaje

schmink

Schminke

make-up

blanketsel

trucco

Make-up

fard

maquiagem

maquilagem

makyaj

composição

maquillatge

constitution

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmeɪkʌp/

Etymology

Deverbal from make up. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from French maquillage, from maquiller (“to make up, fabricate”)