cloud-built

adjective

unsubstantial or imaginary.

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Meanings

adjectivecloud-built (comparative more cloud-built, superlative most cloud-built)

comparative more cloud-built · superlative most cloud-built

  1. unsubstantial or imaginary.

    on the summit of a cloud-built height

    1761, Hew Dalrymple, Woodstock. An Elegy
    2 more examples

    both of them so flimsy and cloud-built, that they are unable to withstand even the soft impressions of their adverse debility.

    1799, Analytical Review

    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!

    1908, Richard Watson Gilder, Vanishing City
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