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1. Cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance
   - make-up, war paint [informal]
    
2. An event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event
   "the two teams played a makeup one week later"; "he missed the test and had to take a makeup";
   - make-up
    
3. The way in which someone or something is composed
   - constitution, composition, physical composition, make-up

1. Form or compose
   "The children made up the chorus";
   - constitute, represent, comprise, be
    
2. Devise or compose
   "This designer makes up our Spring collections"
    
3. Do or give something to somebody in return
   - pay, pay off, compensate
    
4. Make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point
   "I have to make up a French exam";
   - catch up with
    
5. Concoct something artificial or untrue
   - fabricate, manufacture, cook up [informal], invent
    
6. Put in order or neaten
   "make up a room";
   - make
    
7. Adjust for
   "engineers will work to make up the effects of air resistance";
   - compensate, counterbalance, correct, even out, even off, even up
    
8. Come to terms
   "After some discussion we finally made up";
   - reconcile, patch up, conciliate, settle
    
9. Apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier

Derived forms: making up, makes up, makeups, made up, make-ups

See also: get

Type of: agree, balance, clean up, concoct, concord, concur, cosmetic, declutter, design, dream up, equilibrate, equilibrise [Brit], equilibrize, event, groom, hatch, hit on, hold, neaten, property, recoup, recover, recuperate, settle, square away [N. Amer], straighten, straighten out, think of, think up, tidy, tidy up

Encyclopedia: Makeup