# constructed

Pronunciation: say "kuhn-STRUK-tid" /kənˈstɹʌktəd/

## Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of construct. — simple past and past participle of construct
   - Simple: Simple past tense and past participle of construct. Use this form for building something that already happened.
   - _Engineers constructed the tunnel using enormous boring machines._
   - _The argument was carefully constructed to anticipate every objection._

## Adjective

2. Made by people rather than occurring naturally in the world; artificial.
   - Simple: Made by people instead of happening on its own in nature.
   - _A constructed wetland filters the runoff before it reaches the lake._
   - _Linguists distinguish natural languages from constructed ones like Klingon._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/constructed (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).