well-built

English

Alternative forms

• well built

Etymology

From 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.
   • 1978, Ogden Tanner, Garden Construction, page 7:

     The basics of a well-built garden

   • 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 39:

     It ran derailed for about 500 yards before encountering a set of points, which caused it to veer into the path of an Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, powered by Freightliner 66521 (one of a class of locomotive well-known for being well-built enough to destroy anything that got in its way).

2. Muscular and lean, having a body resembling that of an athlete.
   • 1998, Nora Roberts, The Reef, page 3:

     James Lassiter was forty years old, a well-built, ruggedly handsome man in the prime of his life, in the best of health.

   • 2002, James Patterson, Violets Are Blue, page 180:

     A well-built teenage boy in a soiled black leather studded vest and black jeans was crouched in the far corner of the cellar, waiting for us.

Translations

well constructed

• Assamese: আটিল (atil)
• Danish: velbygget
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: velbygd, velbygget

  Nynorsk: velbygd

• Ukrainian: до́бре збудо́ваний m (dóbre zbudóvanyj)

well-built physique

• Assamese: ওখ-পাখ (ükho-pakho)
• Bulgarian: добре сложен (dobre složen)
• Greek: γεροδεμένος (el) m (gerodeménos), εύρωστος (el) m (évrostos)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: velbygd, velbygget

  Nynorsk: velbygd

• Spanish: masetiado
• Ukrainian: міцни́й m (micnýj), ставни́й m (stavnýj), га́рної стату́ри (hárnoji statúry)