unsubstantial

Adjective

Meaning

Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

unreal insubstantial airy light fantastic illusive spiritual weak thin slight spectral aerial short-lived imaginary trivial
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Antonyms

physical necessary substantial bodily durable imperative
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Phrases with the word

be unsubstantial more unsubstantial

Examples

Constitutional rights should not be frittered away by arguments so technical and unsubstantial. Louis Brandeis

But when we sit together, close,' said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory. Virginia Woolf

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world. Euripides

as insubstantial as a dream Source: Internet

an insubstantial mirage on the horizon Source: Internet

Theology was, however, "rather unsubstantial fodder" for d'Alembert. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

unsubstanced unsubstant unsubstantiable unsubstantialise unsubstantiality unsubstantialize