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

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

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well-built physique

• Assamese: ওখ-পাখ (ükho-pakho)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: velbygd, velbygget

  Nynorsk: velbygd

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• Spanish: masetiado