ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Cloud-built

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Cloud-built is an adjective meaning unsubstantial or imaginary.

Meaning

unsubstantial or imaginary.

Example Sentences

on the summit of a cloud-built height
both of them so flimsy and cloud-built, that they are unable to withstand even the soft impressions of their adverse debility.
Of love undying and of endless praise ⁠For beauty only—chief of all thy kind; Immortal, even because of thy brief days; ⁠Thou cloud-built, fairy city of the mind!

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include empty, aerial, air-built, nonphysical, vaporous, phantom.

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