Unsubstantial

Word UNSUBSTANTIAL
Character 13
Hyphenation un sub stan tial
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Unsubstantial"

What do we mean by unsubstantial?

Lacking material substance; insubstantial. adjective

Lacking firmness or strength; flimsy. adjective

Lacking basis in fact. adjective

Not substantial; not solid: as, unsubstantial air. Not real; not having substance; imaginary; illusive: as, unsubstantial forms. Not having good substance; not strong or stout: as, an unsubstantial building; unsubstantial cloth.

Not giving substance or strength; weak; not strengthening or invigorating.

Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical. adjective

Alternative form of insubstantial. adjective

Lacking material form or substance; unreal adjective

Insubstantial.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Unsubstantial

The word "unsubstantial" in example sentences

"Something like a London fog" it has been called, "only a dust fog," – an animated fog in which everything unsubstantial is fair prey. ❋ Unknown (1922)

Even before the protests, female political power and representation in Mubarak's Egypt was unsubstantial and token at best. ❋ Ehsan Zaffar (2011)

His flesh as unsubstantial as cobwebs, veins and arteries, tendons and muscles all clear beneath the ethereal shine of translucent skin. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

Let us now consider the residue of each of these products; it consists of the same unsubstantial reality in each, a mere congelation of homogeneous human labor, of labour-power expended without regard to the mode of its expenditure. ❋ Skzbrust (2010)

There's nothing like emotional substance, even in an ostensibly unsubstantial thriller. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2012)

But I still think it remains a fair question: Would the not-unsubstantial investment in an MSR mission designed to ferry a cache of tiny surface scratchings to earthside labs be all that more efficient/cost-effective than sending along a team of trained geologists to manage the collection with a robust on-site laboratory available for immediate assessment of specimen value? ❋ Unknown (2009)

That was the confounded part of it, and sometimes he was so baffled and overwrought by his feelings that he assumed a super-judicial calm and assured himself that his dislike of Tudor was a matter of unsubstantial prejudice and jealousy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Front, Churchill in his latest push had expressed unshaken confidence in the allied conduct of the war, and Roosevelt according to a recent speech was supremely optimistic as to the final outcome of the conflict, all very vague and unsubstantial, but, heartening, never the less. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Funny that a video about information literacy includes such an unsubstantial claim. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If people get agitated by people making more money than them, and maybe want to kill them, or less dramatically tax them more, then this is a bad thing, and they need to chill out, remember that it's lonely on top, and that prestige is unsubstantial and ultimately meaningless. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To say that Colbert's testimony was surprisingly unsubstantial, if funny, would be unfair, because it would imply we expected celebrity testimony before congress to be anything other than unsubstantial. ❋ Alexandra Petri (2010)

You never report facts until unsubstantial claims contrary to the truth have been proven false, ( 'ie death panels, the public option is a government take over of health care), and then you want to do your so called fact check, it's more like, after the fact check. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unlike us, who may be unsubstantial, but are at least real, they aren't even that. ❋ Nina Alvarez (2010)

Often, those makeovers are really just incredibly tacky - I mean, not in a gaudy way, but they're just kind of unfulfilling and unsubstantial. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In comparison with the sums pocketed by Manchester United and Barcelona, these payments are unsubstantial, but they are significant enough to perpetuate the hierarchy in many European leagues, which helps explain why FC Sheriff has now won the Moldovan league 10 times in a row. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I just got a chance to look at the latest Sarah Palin video, “Mama Grizzlies,” and I have to say it is vintage Palin: relentlessly, insultingly unsubstantial. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Does he have proof that these millions of files online (that should be “breath taking” to the few “law abiding” citizens out there, and I guess unsubstantial to the rest of us?) are actually illegal copies? ❋ Unknown (2008)

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