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Insubstantial

Insubstantial Meaning & Definition
Insubstantial Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Insubstantial?

[adj] lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"
[adj] lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Insubstantial: aerial | aeriform | aery | airy | ethereal | jejune | shadowy | unreal | unsubstantial | unwholesome | wraithlike

Related Terms | Find terms related to Insubstantial: adulterated | airy | asomatous | astral | attenuate | attenuated | bodiless | boyish | brittle | capricious | changeable | chimerical | corruptible | cut | dangerous | decarnate | decarnated | deciduous | decrepit | defalcation | deficiency | deficit | delicate | desultory | diaphanous | dilute | diluted | discarnate | disembodied | dying | ephemeral | ethereal | evanescent | extramundane | fading | false | fancied | fanciful | fantastic | feeble | fickle | fine | fine-drawn | finespun | fleeting | flimsy | flitting | fly-by-night | flying | fragile | frail | fugacious | fugitive | gaseous | gauzy | ghostly | girlish | gossamer | gracile | hallucinatory | illusive | illusory | imaginary | imagined | immaterial | impalpable | impermanent | impetuous | imponderable | impulsive | inadequacy | inconclusive | inconstant | incorporate | incorporeal | infirm | insecure | insignificant | insufficiency | intangible | lack | lacy | light | metaphysical | misty | momentary | mortal | mutable | nondurable | nonmaterial | nonpermanent | nonphysical | nonsubstantial | occult | otherworldly | paltry | papery | passing | paucity | perilous | perishable | phantasmal | phantom | poor | poverty | precarious | provisional | psychic | puny | rare | rarefied | risky | scant | scantiness | scarceness | shadowy | shaky | shifting | shifty | shortage | short-lived | slender | slenderish | slight | slight-made | slim | slimmish | slinky | slippery | small | spiritual | subtile | subtle | supernatural | svelte | sylphlike | temporal | temporary | tentative | tenuous | thin | thin-bodied | thinned | thinned-out | thinnish | thin-set | thin-spun | threadlike | ticklish | transient | transitive | transitory | transmundane | treacherous | uncompact | uncompressed | unconcrete | undependable | underage | undurable | unearthly | unembodied | unenduring | unextended | unfaithworthy | unfleshly | unphysical | unproved | unreal | unreliable | unrigorous | unsolid | unsound | unstable | unsteadfast | unsteady | unsubstanced | unsubstantial | unsure | unsustained | untrustworthy | unworldly | vague | vaporous | visionary | volatile | wasp-waisted | watered | watered-down | watery | weak | weightless | willowy | windy | wiredrawn | wispy

See Also | immaterial | nonmaterial

Insubstantial In Webster's Dictionary

\In`sub*stan"tial\, a. Unsubstantial; not real or strong. ``Insubstantial pageant.'' [R.] --Shak.

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