Synonyms of constructing

constructing

verb

present participle of construct

1

as in devising

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination

he managed to construct a theory that fits all the facts

Synonyms & Similar Words

• devising
• concocting
• inventing
• designing
• producing
• manufacturing
• thinking (up)
• cooking (up)
• fabricating
• contriving
• coming up with
• drumming up
• excogitating
• hatching
• making up
• conceiving
• envisioning
• imagining
• visualizing
• trumping up
• dreaming
• vamping (up)
• coining
• improvising
• envisaging
• fantasizing
• daydreaming
• visioning
• picturing
• extemporizing
• ad-libbing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reproducing
• copying
• duplicating
• imitating
• replicating
• mimicking
• cloning
• reduplicating
• copycatting

2

as in building

to form by putting together parts or materials

constructed a hydroelectric dam across the river

Synonyms & Similar Words

• building
• assembling
• erecting
• making
• creating
• designing
• establishing
• fabricating
• producing
• manufacturing
• piecing
• rebuilding
• raising
• rearing
• generating
• confecting
• making up
• concocting
• organizing
• reconstructing
• fashioning
• setting up
• putting together
• shaping
• inventing
• putting up
• forging
• devising
• framing
• initiating
• molding
• originating
• imagining
• inaugurating
• instituting
• hammering
• beginning
• constituting
• innovating
• prefabricating
• carpentering
• conceiving
• handcrafting
• coining
• combining
• retrofitting
• contriving
• founding
• reassembling
• redeveloping
• fathering
• thinking (up)
• cooking (up)
• uniting
• reedifying
• throwing up
• rigging (up)
• jerry-building

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dismantling
• destroying
• striking
• disassembling
• demolishing
• wrecking
• dismembering
• tearing down
• flattening
• taking down
• smashing
• ruining
• razing
• knocking down
• pulverizing
• shattering
• devastating
• leveling
• exploding
• pulling down
• dividing
• demounting
• separating
• detaching
• blowing up
• disengaging
• ruinating
• disconnecting
• disjoining
• disuniting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of constructing

Compass is constructing five hyperscale data centers on the former Sears Headquarters campus. — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026

This includes repairing roofs, modernizing classrooms, upgrading heating and cooling systems, improving security and constructing new buildings. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026

On that day, Skoloda, Pasek, and others had diligently practiced constructing the Norwegian reeve, along with other rigging arrangements. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

By transforming the application of violence and expanding warfare from limited conflicts to existential risks, this inflection point requires a new way of thinking about and constructing alliances. — Dan Driscoll, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026

For now, the vision involves replacing the aging Indian Creek bridge, rebuilding intersections on either end, and constructing an overpass to carry cars over the Union Pacific tracks on the south bank of the stream. — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 25 Sep. 2026

Physicists are nowhere close to constructing a functional theory of this form, much less finding hard evidence that our universe works this way. — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026

Most prominently, China is constructing one of the world's largest dams and hydropower plants in Tibet, costing around $170 billion. — Mamita Bhandari, NPR, 23 Sep. 2026

Before the reactor can be placed roughly a mile underground, the project needs a method for constructing a suitably sized borehole at that depth. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026