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cloud-built

cloud-built adjective: unsubstantial or imaginary.

Adjective

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

  1. unsubstantial or imaginary.
    • on the summit of a cloud-built height1761, Hew Dalrymple, Woodstock. An Elegy
    • 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

Forms of cloud-built

comparativemore cloud-built
superlativemost cloud-built

Questions about cloud-built

What does cloud-built mean?
Cloud-built means unsubstantial or imaginary.
What part of speech is cloud-built?
Cloud-built is an adjective.

Words near cloud-built in the dictionary

  1. cloud storages
  2. cloud street
  3. cloud streets
  4. cloud suck
  5. cloud up
  6. cloud-built
  7. cloud-burst
  8. cloud-bursts
  9. cloud-capt
  10. cloud-cuckoo-land
  11. cloud-first

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