insubstantial

Speech parts

1. insubstantial - Adjective

2. insubstantial - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Unsubstantial; not real or strong.

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Examples

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. John Kenneth Galbraith

I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying to clear a bit the misty lake of insubstantial dreams, which reflect reality like the lake reflects the mountains. Carlo Rovelli

What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hinduism, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary. Mahatma Gandhi

I was just trying to show you,” he went on, "just how insubstantial a ‘common sense' idea can be when you pin it down. Neither ‘common sense' nor ‘logic' can prove anything. Proof comes from experiment, or to put it another way, from experience, and from nothing else. Robert A. Heinlein

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? Carl Sagan

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow. Sophocles

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