Define the word insubstantial"Insubstantial" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Insubstantial \In`sub*stan"tial\, a.
Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant."
[R.] --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
"insubstantial" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
insubstantial
adj 1: lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as
insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on
the horizon" [syn: unsubstantial, unreal] [ant: substantial]
2: lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very
poor" [syn: jejune]
"insubstantial" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
196 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
short-lived, shortage, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made,
slim, slimmish, slinky, slippery, small, spiritual, subtile,
subtle, supernatural, svelte, sylphlike, temporal, temporary,
tentative, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun,
thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, 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
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