Well-built

Alternative forms

• well built

Origin

From well + built

Full definition of well-built

Adjective

1. Constructed in a pleasing or sound manner.
• 1978, Ogden Tanner, Garden Construction‎, page 7The basics of a well-built garden
2. Muscular and lean, having a body resembling that of an athlete
• 1998, Nora Roberts, The Reef‎, page 3James 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 180A 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.