well-built

comparative better-built · comparative more well-built · superlative best-built · superlative most well-built · alternative well built

1. Constructed in a pleasing or sound manner.

   The basics of a well-built garden

   1978, Ogden Tanner, Garden Construction, page 7

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   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).

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

2. Muscular and lean, having a body resembling that of an athlete.

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

   1998, Nora Roberts, The Reef, page 3

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   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.

   2002, James Patterson, Violets Are Blue, page 180