Usually means: Components or qualities forming something.
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  1. makings: Merriam-Webster
  2. makings: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. makings: Collins English Dictionary
  4. makings: Vocabulary.com
  5. Makings, makings: Wordnik
  6. makings: Wiktionary
  7. makings: Dictionary.com
  8. makings: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. makings: Rhymezone
  10. makings: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  That which is needed for something: necessary ingredients.

Similar:
devising, fashioning, essential, necessaries, requisite, the thing, wherewithal, active material, life-source, resource, more...

Opposite:
unmaking, undoing, destruction, disintegration, annihilation

Types:
ingredients, components, elements, constituents, more...

Phrases:
have the makings of, makings of, the makings of, more...

Adjectives:
merry, own, present, music, less, decision, royal, vulgar, desert, potential, rule



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Similar:
devising, fashioning, essential, necessaries, requisite, the thing, wherewithal, active material, life-source, resource, more...

Opposite:
unmaking, undoing, destruction, disintegration, annihilation

Types:
ingredients, components, elements, constituents, more...

Phrases:
have the makings of, makings of, the makings of, more...

Adjectives:
merry, own, present, music, less, decision, royal, vulgar, desert, potential, rule



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