prefabricated

Speech parts

1. prefabricated - Adjective

2. prefabricated - Verb

Meaning

manufactured in advance, usually to a standard format, and then assembled on site
A prefabricated home

invented in advance
They both told the police a prefabricated version of events.


prefabricated

simple past and past participle of prefabricate

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

prefab form make produce raise manufacture evolve modular assemble erect segmental ready-made ready-to-wear set up put together
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Antonyms

appropriate adapted characteristic custom exclusive comfortable
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Phrases with the word

prefabricated house

Examples

The reality of women in Islam is a prefabricated destiny. Tariq Ali

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances. Jane Jacobs

You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a "thing"; he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs. Anthony de Mello

The use of cliché [is] the use of ready-made, prefabricated formulas designed to give those who are too lazy think the illusion of thinking. Northrop Frye

Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F. Kennedy

My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions. Sigmar Gabriel

Close letter words and terms

prefab house prefabber prefabricate prefabricated house prefabrication prefabricator