insubstantialadj.

/ɪnsʌbˈstanʃəl/

Etymology: < late and medieval Latin insubstāntiālis, < in- (in- prefix⁴) + substāntiālis substantial adj., n., and adv. Compare French insubstantiel (16th cent. in Littré).

1. Not existing in substance or reality; not real; imaginary, illusive; non-substantial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [adjective] > unreal or not real

unreal1605

insubstantiala1616

chimerical1638

chimeric1655

chimerian1682

negational1827

unactual1871

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal

imaginary?1510

imaginative1517

rational1530

fantastical1531

fantasied1561

airy1565

fancied1568

legendary1570

dreamed1597

fabled1606

ideal1611

fictive1612

affectual1614

insubstantiala1616

imaginatorya1618

supposititious1620

fictitious1621

utopian1624

utopic1624

notional1629

affective1633

fictiousa1644

notionary1646

figmental1655

suppositious1655

fict1677

visionary1725

metaphysical1728

unrealized1767

fancy1801

nice-spun1801

subjective1815

aerial1829

transcendental1835

cardboardy1863

mythical1870

cardboard1879

fictionary1882

figmentary1887

alternative1939

alternate1944

fantasized1964

ideate1966

fanciful-

fantastic-

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 155 The great Globe it selfe, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolue, And like this insubstantiall Pageant faded Leaue not a racke behinde.

1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Aug. 146/2 Peradventure the very names, which I have summoned up before thee, are fantastic—insubstantial.

1865 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo (1866) 136 It was no insubstantial city, such as we fancy in the clouds.

2. Void of substance; not of stout or solid substance; unsubstantial. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]

slidinga900

wankleeOE

windyc1000

unsteadfastc1200

fleeting?c1225

loose?c1225

brotelc1315

unstablec1340

varyingc1340

variantc1374

motleyc1380

ungroundedc1380

muablea1393

passiblea1393

remuablea1393

changeablea1398

movablea1398

variablec1397

slidderya1400

ticklec1400

variantc1412

flitting1413

mutable?a1425

movingc1425

flaskisable1430

flickering1430

transmutablec1430

vertible1447

brittlea1450

ficklea1450

permutablec1450

unfirmc1450

uncertain1477

turnable1483

unsteadfast1483

vagrantc1522

inconstant1526

alterable?1531

stirringc1540

slippery1548

various1552

slid?1553

mutala1561

rolling1561

weathery1563

unconstant1568

interchangeable1574

fluctuant1575

stayless1575

transitive1575

voluble1575

changeling1577

queasy1579

desultory1581

huff-puff1582

unstaid1586

vagrant1586

changeful1590

floating1594

Protean1594

unstayed1594

swimming1596

anchorless1597

mobilec1600

ticklish1601

catching1603

labile1603

unrooted1604

quicksilvered1605

versatile1605

insubstantial1607

uncertain1609

brandling1611

rootless1611

squeasy1611

wind-changinga1616

insolid1618

ambulatory1625

versatilous1629

plastic1633

desultorious1637

unbottomed1641

fluid1642

fluent1648

yea-and-nay1648

versipellous1650

flexile1651

uncentred1652

variating1653

chequered1656

slideable1662

transchangeative1662

weathercock-like1663

flicketing1674

fluxa1677

lapsable1678

wanton1681

veering1684

upon the weathercock1702

contingent1703

unsettled?1726

fermentable1731

afloat1757

brickle1768

wavy1795

vagarious1798

unsettled1803

fitful1810

metamorphosical1811

undulating1815

tittupya1817

titubant1817

mutative1818

papier mâché1818

teetotum1819

vacillating1822

capricious1823

sensitive1828

quicksilvery1829

unengrafted1829

fluxionala1834

proteiform1833

liquid1835

tottlish1835

kaleidoscopic1846

versative1846

kaleidoscopical1858

tottery1861

choppy1865

variative1874

variational1879

wimbly-wambly1881

fluctuable1882

shifty1882

giveable1884

shifty1884

tippy1886

mutatory1890

upsettable1890

rocky1897

undulatory1897

streaky1898

tottly1905

tipply1906

up and down1907

inertialess1927

sometimey1946

rise-and-fall1950

switchable1961

the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective]

flittingc1374

aerya1398

bottomlessa1413

hollowa1529

flittering1549

wanzing1571

aerial1581

slight1585

flit1590

windy1593

filmy1594

tenuous1597

unsubstantial1597

yeasty1598

thingless1599

airy1600

spare1602

spongy1603

insubstantial1607

baselessa1616

thina1616

insolid1618

insubstantiate1621

tenuious1634

bubble1635

thin-spun1638

subventaneous1646

unsubstanceda1658

whipped1673

aericala1678

huffy1678

blatherya1693

naughty1696

substanceless1784

vapoury1818

aeriform1827

airified1837

blow-away1858

non-substantial1858

unbased1860

evasive1881

stuffless1896

fabricless1905

lighter-than-air1909

the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective]

tender?c1225

feeble1340

infirmc1374

slight1393

weakc1400

sperec1440

silly1587

unsound1590

immaterial1609

paper1615

unsubstantiala1617

reedy1628

slighty1662

insufficient1700

flimsy1702

bandbox1727

unconfirmed1752

insubstantial1767

gossamery1790

thread-paper1803

gossamer1806

slimsy1845

unendurable1879

bandboxy1891

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > slight > slight or insubstantial

leanc1325

light1534

rushy1579

slight1585

smattering1589

exile1610

unmassy1665

insubstantial1767

flimsy1780

tenuousa1817

unsubstantial1825

gaseous1846

slimline1973

lite1986

the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > [adjective]

wokec897

unstronga900

unmightyeOE

feeblec1175

strengthlessc1175

unwieldc1220

weaka1300

frailc1384

unwieldyc1386

unthendec1425

dissolutec1450

unsure?a1475

feyc1475

simple1477

unfirm1483

unsinewed?1541

wash1548

weakling1557

ladylike1566

silly1567

water weak1592

washya1631

wankle1686

foible1715

unmuscular1725

nerveless1792

wankly1795

shilpit1813

wankya1825

sinewless1829

weedy-looking1835

queachy1859

insubstantiala1861

paper-backed1888

weak-fleshed1967

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iv. 35 The errours and inconueniences which doe necessarily belong to such insubstantiall instructions.

1767 W. Harte Amaranth 39 Nothing in the event is more fragil and insubstantial [than a spider's web].

1848 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth 2nd Ser. (ed. 2) 262 The multitude of indistinct, insubstantial words, which have been driven across our language from forein regions.

a1861 E. B. Browning Lett. R. H. Horne (1877) II. lii. 83 A common cough striking on an insubstantial frame began my bodily troubles.

Draft additions 1993

insubˈstantially adv. not substantially; impalpably.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > to a trifling extent

inconsiderably1727

triflingly1865

insubstantially1972

1972 P. H. Kocher Master of Middle-Earth i. 3 Tolkien has a constitutional aversion to leaving Middle-earth afloat too insubstantially in empty time and place.

1989 Newsday (N.Y.) 27 Jan. (Nassau ed.) 78/1 The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York has permitted the investment firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. to become whole again, although not insubstantially depleted of flesh.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	insubstantial
释义	insubstantialadj. /ɪnsʌbˈstanʃəl/ Etymology: < late and medieval Latin insubstāntiālis, < in- (in- prefix⁴) + substāntiālis substantial adj., n., and adv. Compare French insubstantiel (16th cent. in Littré). 1. Not existing in substance or reality; not real; imaginary, illusive; non-substantial. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [adjective] > unreal or not real unreal1605 insubstantiala1616 chimerical1638 chimeric1655 chimerian1682 negational1827 unactual1871 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal imaginary?1510 imaginative1517 rational1530 fantastical1531 fantasied1561 airy1565 fancied1568 legendary1570 dreamed1597 fabled1606 ideal1611 fictive1612 affectual1614 insubstantiala1616 imaginatorya1618 supposititious1620 fictitious1621 utopian1624 utopic1624 notional1629 affective1633 fictiousa1644 notionary1646 figmental1655 suppositious1655 fict1677 visionary1725 metaphysical1728 unrealized1767 fancy1801 nice-spun1801 subjective1815 aerial1829 transcendental1835 cardboardy1863 mythical1870 cardboard1879 fictionary1882 figmentary1887 alternative1939 alternate1944 fantasized1964 ideate1966 fanciful- fantastic- a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 155 The great Globe it selfe, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolue, And like this insubstantiall Pageant faded Leaue not a racke behinde. View more context for this quotation 1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Aug. 146/2 Peradventure the very names, which I have summoned up before thee, are fantastic—insubstantial. 1865 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo (1866) 136 It was no insubstantial city, such as we fancy in the clouds. 2. Void of substance; not of stout or solid substance; unsubstantial. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] slidinga900 wankleeOE windyc1000 unsteadfastc1200 fleeting?c1225 loose?c1225 brotelc1315 unstablec1340 varyingc1340 variantc1374 motleyc1380 ungroundedc1380 muablea1393 passiblea1393 remuablea1393 changeablea1398 movablea1398 variablec1397 slidderya1400 ticklec1400 variantc1412 flitting1413 mutable?a1425 movingc1425 flaskisable1430 flickering1430 transmutablec1430 vertible1447 brittlea1450 ficklea1450 permutablec1450 unfirmc1450 uncertain1477 turnable1483 unsteadfast1483 vagrantc1522 inconstant1526 alterable?1531 stirringc1540 slippery1548 various1552 slid?1553 mutala1561 rolling1561 weathery1563 unconstant1568 interchangeable1574 fluctuant1575 stayless1575 transitive1575 voluble1575 changeling1577 queasy1579 desultory1581 huff-puff1582 unstaid1586 vagrant1586 changeful1590 floating1594 Protean1594 unstayed1594 swimming1596 anchorless1597 mobilec1600 ticklish1601 catching1603 labile1603 unrooted1604 quicksilvered1605 versatile1605 insubstantial1607 uncertain1609 brandling1611 rootless1611 squeasy1611 wind-changinga1616 insolid1618 ambulatory1625 versatilous1629 plastic1633 desultorious1637 unbottomed1641 fluid1642 fluent1648 yea-and-nay1648 versipellous1650 flexile1651 uncentred1652 variating1653 chequered1656 slideable1662 transchangeative1662 weathercock-like1663 flicketing1674 fluxa1677 lapsable1678 wanton1681 veering1684 upon the weathercock1702 contingent1703 unsettled?1726 fermentable1731 afloat1757 brickle1768 wavy1795 vagarious1798 unsettled1803 fitful1810 metamorphosical1811 undulating1815 tittupya1817 titubant1817 mutative1818 papier mâché1818 teetotum1819 vacillating1822 capricious1823 sensitive1828 quicksilvery1829 unengrafted1829 fluxionala1834 proteiform1833 liquid1835 tottlish1835 kaleidoscopic1846 versative1846 kaleidoscopical1858 tottery1861 choppy1865 variative1874 variational1879 wimbly-wambly1881 fluctuable1882 shifty1882 giveable1884 shifty1884 tippy1886 mutatory1890 upsettable1890 rocky1897 undulatory1897 streaky1898 tottly1905 tipply1906 up and down1907 inertialess1927 sometimey1946 rise-and-fall1950 switchable1961 the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective] flittingc1374 aerya1398 bottomlessa1413 hollowa1529 flittering1549 wanzing1571 aerial1581 slight1585 flit1590 windy1593 filmy1594 tenuous1597 unsubstantial1597 yeasty1598 thingless1599 airy1600 spare1602 spongy1603 insubstantial1607 baselessa1616 thina1616 insolid1618 insubstantiate1621 tenuious1634 bubble1635 thin-spun1638 subventaneous1646 unsubstanceda1658 whipped1673 aericala1678 huffy1678 blatherya1693 naughty1696 substanceless1784 vapoury1818 aeriform1827 airified1837 blow-away1858 non-substantial1858 unbased1860 evasive1881 stuffless1896 fabricless1905 lighter-than-air1909 the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] tender?c1225 feeble1340 infirmc1374 slight1393 weakc1400 sperec1440 silly1587 unsound1590 immaterial1609 paper1615 unsubstantiala1617 reedy1628 slighty1662 insufficient1700 flimsy1702 bandbox1727 unconfirmed1752 insubstantial1767 gossamery1790 thread-paper1803 gossamer1806 slimsy1845 unendurable1879 bandboxy1891 the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > slight > slight or insubstantial leanc1325 light1534 rushy1579 slight1585 smattering1589 exile1610 unmassy1665 insubstantial1767 flimsy1780 tenuousa1817 unsubstantial1825 gaseous1846 slimline1973 lite1986 the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > [adjective] wokec897 unstronga900 unmightyeOE feeblec1175 strengthlessc1175 unwieldc1220 weaka1300 frailc1384 unwieldyc1386 unthendec1425 dissolutec1450 unsure?a1475 feyc1475 simple1477 unfirm1483 unsinewed?1541 wash1548 weakling1557 ladylike1566 silly1567 water weak1592 washya1631 wankle1686 foible1715 unmuscular1725 nerveless1792 wankly1795 shilpit1813 wankya1825 sinewless1829 weedy-looking1835 queachy1859 insubstantiala1861 paper-backed1888 weak-fleshed1967 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iv. 35 The errours and inconueniences which doe necessarily belong to such insubstantiall instructions. 1767 W. Harte Amaranth 39 Nothing in the event is more fragil and insubstantial [than a spider's web]. 1848 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth 2nd Ser. (ed. 2) 262 The multitude of indistinct, insubstantial words, which have been driven across our language from forein regions. a1861 E. B. Browning Lett. R. H. Horne (1877) II. lii. 83 A common cough striking on an insubstantial frame began my bodily troubles. Draft additions 1993 insubˈstantially adv. not substantially; impalpably. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > to a trifling extent inconsiderably1727 triflingly1865 insubstantially1972 1972 P. H. Kocher Master of Middle-Earth i. 3 Tolkien has a constitutional aversion to leaving Middle-earth afloat too insubstantially in empty time and place. 1989 Newsday (N.Y.) 27 Jan. (Nassau ed.) 78/1 The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York has permitted the investment firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. to become whole again, although not insubstantially depleted of flesh. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.1607
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