cloud castle
Aerial fantasy stronghold
Cloud castle is a fanciful or unrealistic plan, dream, or scheme—something built on nothing substantial.
The image is of an elaborate structure floating in the sky, impressive to imagine but impossible to inhabit.
Her business plan was a cloud castle that ignored market realities.
Similar to castle in the air or pipe dream.
- skyVisible overhead expanse
- fortressHeavily defended military structure
- floatingStaying atop liquid
- dreamingMental imagery during slumber
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
turrets · ethereal · imagination · mist · silver lining · towers · magical · kingdom · heavens · palace · whimsical · cumulus · fairy tale · once upon a time · fairy tale ending · spires · weightless · billowing
- fairy tale placesenchanted forest, fairy glen, magic kingdom, fairy ring, wishing well
- fantasy fortressescitadel, stronghold, tower, keep, dark tower
- fantasy homesmushroom house, gingerbread house, hobbit hole, fairy cottage, ice palace
- imaginary worldsdreamland, fairyland, wonderland, fantasy realm, dream world
- fairy landsNarnia, Oz, Neverland, elfland, fairy ring
- Fantasy RealmsNarnia, Middle-earth, Hogwarts, Oz, Neverland
cloud castlereal estate
Land and its structures
terra firma · solid ground · tangible property · mud hut · hard facts
cloud castlehard facts
Verified, objective information
solid foundation · feet on the ground · firm footing · brass tacks · sure thing
cloud, castle, clouds, castles, cloudy, clouded, clouding, cloudless, cloudier