'Insubstantial' definitions:
Definition of 'insubstantial'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon" [syn: insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal] [ant: material, real, substantial]
adjective
Lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor" [syn: insubstantial, jejune]
Definition of 'Insubstantial'
From: GCIDE
- Insubstantial \In`sub*stan"tial\, a. Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'insubstantial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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