'Unsubstantial' definitions:
Definition of 'unsubstantial'
(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]
Definition of 'Unsubstantial'
From: GCIDE
- Unsubstantial \Unsubstantial\ See substantial.
Definition of 'Unsubstantial'
From: GCIDE
- Unsubstantial \Un`sub*stan"tial\, a. Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'unsubstantial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adulterated,
- airy,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- asomatous,
- astral,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- autistic,
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- bodiless,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cheap-jack,
- chimeric,
- cobwebby,
- crumbling,
- crumbly,
- cut,
- dainty,
- dangerous,
- decarnate,
- decarnated,
- deceptive,
- decrepit,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- desultory,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- discarnate,
- disembodied,
- disintegrating,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- effeminate,
- erroneous,
- ethereal,
- extramundane,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fanciful,
- fantastic,
- feeble,
- fine,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- gaseous,
- ghostly,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- hazardous,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- immaterial,
- impalpable,
- imponderable,
- improbable,
- inconceivable,
- inconclusive,
- incorporate,
- incorporeal,
- incredible,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- intangible,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- light,
- lightweight,
- merely nominal,
- metaphysical,
- misleading,
- namby-pamby,
- nonmaterial,
- nonphysical,
- nonsubstantial,
- not real,
- occult,
- ostensible,
- otherworldly,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- perilous,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- poor,
- poorish,
- precarious,
- provisional,
- psychic,
- puny,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- risky,
- rotten,
- rotten at,
- seeming,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- shadowy,
- shaky,
- shattery,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- slippery,
- specious,
- spectral,
- spiritual,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supernatural,
- supposititious,
- tacky,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- tenuous,
- thick,
- thin,
- thinned,
- thinned-out,
- ticklish,
- transmundane,
- treacherous,
- unactual,
- unbelievable,
- uncompact,
- uncompressed,
- unconcrete,
- unconvincing,
- undependable,
- unearthly,
- unembodied,
- unextended,
- unfaithworthy,
- unfirm,
- unfleshly,
- unfounded,
- unphysical,
- unproved,
- unreal,
- unrealistic,
- unreliable,
- unrigorous,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsturdy,
- unsubstanced,
- unsure,
- unsustained,
- untrustworthy,
- unworldly,
- vaporous,
- visionary,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- weak,
- weakly,
- weightless,
- windy,
- wispy,
- womanish