Standard Lemma guide

reconstructed

adj · verb · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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adj

Meaning 1

Constructed again or anew.

Rebuilt; reassembled; redesigned and reimplemented; thoroughly renovated even at the structural level.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: literal or figurative; financing; etc; financing; etc

Topics: management

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: unreconstructed, unrestructured

2

adj

Meaning 2

Constructed again or anew.

Recreated; redeveloped and rediscovered through forensic methods or other similarly clever methods of induction from limited evidence of a past state.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: literal or figurative; events; etc; events; etc

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Constructed again or anew.

Reformed in politics, ideology, or spiritual conformation; reconciled to social or cultural change; particularly with respect to the Reconstruction after the American Civil War.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: literal or figurative

Examples

  • Near-synonyms: reconciled, repentant

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: reconciled, repentant

Antonyms: unreconstructed, unrepentant

4

verb

Meaning 4

simple past and past participle of reconstruct

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adjective

Meaning 5

adapted to social or economic change

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a reconstructed feminist

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: unreconstructed

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

3 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: reconstruït — rebuilt
  • Romanian: reconstruit — rebuilt
  • Romanian: reclădit — rebuilt
Real reading context

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