Synonyms and Antonyms of construct
1
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
- he managed to construct a theory that fits all the facts
concoct, contrive, cook (up), devise, drum up, excogitate, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, think (up), trump up, vamp (up)
coin, design, hatch, produce
daydream, dream, fantasize
conceive, envisage, envision, imagine, picture, vision, visualize
ad-lib, extemporize, improvise
2
to form by putting together parts or materials
- constructed a hydroelectric dam across the river
assemble, build, confect, erect, fabricate, make, make up, piece, put up, raise, rear, set up
carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape
prefabricate
begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate
constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize
conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up)
reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, reedify [British], retrofit
jerry-build, rig (up), throw up
combine, unite
demolish, destroy, devastate, flatten, level, pull down, pulverize, raze, ruin, ruinate, shatter, smash, wreck
blow up, explode
detach, disengage
disconnect, disjoin, disunite, divide, separate
