MAKEUP definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary (2025)

Makeup consists of things such as lipstick, eye shadow, and powder which some women put on their faces to make themselves look more attractive or which actors use to change or improve their appearance.

Normally she wore little makeup, but this evening was clearly an exception.

Someone's makeup is their nature and the various qualities in their character.

There was some fatal flaw in his makeup, and as time went on he lapsed into long silences or became off-hand.

The makeup of something consists of its different parts and the way these parts are arranged.

The ideological makeup of the unions is now radically different from what it had been.

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to have a stolid makeup

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of or for making up

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facial cosmetics, as eye shadow or lipstick

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cosmetics used on other parts of the body, as to cover birthmarks

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Her makeup was subtle but very effective

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the total ensemble of cosmetics, wigs, costumes, etc., used by an actor or other performer

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the manner of being made up or put together; composition

the makeup of a team

the makeup of a situation

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the makeup of a criminal

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the appearance of a page, book, newspaper, or the like, resulting from the arrangement and the variation in size and style of the printed elements

The makeup would be helped by a picture in this corner

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the arrangement of set type, cuts, etc., into columns or pages

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