well-built

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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.

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