单词 | substanceless |
释义 | substancelessadj. Without or devoid of substance; unsubstantial. ΘΚΠ 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 1784 F. O'Gallagher Ess. First Princ. Nature: Pt. I iv. i. 160 Unless we are so absurd as to suppose, that..gravity is produced in it [sc. a body] by a spirit, or a substanceless virtue, or by nothing at all. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Human Life in Poems 316 If rootless thus, thus substanceless thy state. 1841 D. M. Moir in J. Galt Ann. Parish (new ed.) p. xxxv The arguments..might be..too shadowy and substanceless to convey intellectual satisfaction. 1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? ix. i You have made that life substanceless as a ghost—that future barren as the grave. 1911 Amer. Year Bk. 1910 405/2 An entire meal was recently prepared in a chemical laboratory without a particle of real food in it—a repast that had all the appearance of wholesome dishes, but was entirely substanceless. 1985 E. W. Soja in D. Gregory & J. Urry Social Relations & Spatial Struct. vi. 103 Space and time for Kant were subjective forms of perception, substanceless and transcendental schemata. 2010 New Yorker 12 July 89/1 David and Alice are themselves curiously substanceless: characters into whom dissatisfactions have been poured. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1784 |
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