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Definition of insubstantial in English: insubstantialadjective ɪnsəbˈstanʃ(ə)lˌɪnsəbˈstæn(t)ʃ(ə)l 1Lacking strength and solidity. the huts are relatively few and insubstantial Example sentencesExamples - Any justification very likely can appear or be made to appear judgmental, discriminatory, unfairly harsh, insubstantial or even anachronistic.
- So if you think this is a site you're likely to read often and get something out of, we're asking if you can chip in some funds for the not insubstantial costs of launching the new site and getting it on its feet.
- Before this time, uranium mining was insubstantial; the only reason it was mined was to obtain radium for cancer treatment and fluorescent dials.
- It amused me to see the insubstantial evidence you had pieced together as your argument against airguns.
- It's feared a wooden fence separating the two properties was insubstantial, and people standing on the balconies of their new homes would be able to look down on gardens surrounding the Lodge.
- Otherwise we get a philosophy that tends to become insubstantial and vaporous.
- Yet when, outraged at such affront, we stand on our rights and demand redress, we would do well to remember how insubstantial the dignity is on which those rights are based.
- Despite some stalwart work by those at the helm of the second and youth teams, the structures that support them are insubstantial, and the development of the game in the community is patchy at best.
- It was his fatuous, smirky tone and insubstantial jibes.
- But no matter how many more dot.coms go bust, nobody should infer from the fall-out that the engines of the new economy are passing, insubstantial fashions soon to fade.
- Contrariwise, juries may convict where the judicial decision-maker would find the evidence insubstantial.
- Because thoughts are insubstantial until we bring them into some kind of material reality with speech, writing, art, machines etc.
- However, the article views the dispute as insubstantial.
- What they almost all had in common was that they cost a lot of money, made you miserable and resulted in staggeringly insubstantial weight losses that were completely negated by your drinking a glass of water.
- And so they didn't seem showy and insubstantial, they seemed like real thoughts that had a particular weight.
- Relative to the musical company into which he's been thrust, his vocal melodies are insubstantial and lyrics pretty but vague.
- Readers may safely treat his latest intervention as being what it appears to be: hasty, heated, and insubstantial.
- As one pack of financial cards falls after another, US capitalism will experience a cleansing of the most exposed and insubstantial parts of the financialised economy.
- What has been written is vague and insubstantial.
- Whether you think it's lovely but insubstantial, or lovely and great, will depend in large part on what you expect from greatness.
Synonyms flimsy, slight, light, fragile, breakable, weak, frail, shaky, unstable, wobbly, tottery, rickety, ramshackle, makeshift jerry-built, badly built, thrown together, cheap, shoddy, gimcrack weak, flimsy, feeble, poor, inadequate, insufficient, thin, slight, tenuous, insignificant, inconsequential, unsubstantial, unconvincing, implausible, unsatisfactory, paltry, trifling, trivial, shallow - 1.1 Not having physical existence.
the flickering light made her face seem insubstantial Example sentencesExamples - Motoko can make herself and others invisible, inaudible, insubstantial… you get the idea.
- Her illegitimate position has rendered her wraithlike and insubstantial, almost disembodied.
- She had never seemed so insubstantial, so illusory.
- At times, the book is about as convincing as a fairytale, proffering only light and insubstantial imaginings.
- She becomes daily more insubstantial, her figure wraithlike.
- The basic unit of classical space is the room, and we should think of it not as a void but as an expansive, albeit insubstantial and invisible, mass.
- What strangers we meet are wraith-like, insubstantial, as if at a quarter-turn from our reality.
- Scare story: if spirits weren't so frustratingly insubstantial, Ham House could sell 'em by the pound.
- The figure, in its nakedness, has an almost ghostly, insubstantial quality, a pathetic vulnerability.
- We who lived in the suburbs of towns that were themselves anonymous and mediocre were exiles from the city's Real: insubstantial wraiths, resigned to our status as non-beings.
- Grandma and grandpa were there too, only in like a sort of ghostly insubstantial form.
Synonyms intangible, impalpable, indefinable, indescribable, vague, obscure, unclear, indistinct untouchable, imperceptible to the touch, unsubstantial, incorporeal imaginary, imagined, fancied, fanciful, figmental, unreal, non-existent, illusory, illusive, delusive, hallucinatory, phantom, spectral, ghostlike, visionary, chimerical, airy, vaporous rare immaterial, unbodied, discarnate, phantasmal, phantasmic, inexistent, illusionary
Derivatives noun ɪnsəbstanʃɪˈalɪti Only when we at last recognize the insubstantiality of all such states, can we utilize them all freely. Example sentencesExamples - In spite of the insubstantiality of the materials that Feher uses, his work reveals an underlying muscularity; it's getting pumped up and starting to shoulder itself around.
- Mill proposed the insubstantiality of the dreamlike future and also that our feeling for the past may be based upon a cosmic joke, a delusion of the dreaming senses.
- This vagueness and insubstantiality is bound up with the director's artistic-intellectual outlook and methods.
- These pithy moments come too seldom to rescue the narrative from its own insubstantiality, though.
adverb The harmonies here flicker far more insubstantially and the piece is united as much by a rhythmic figure (depicting the lazy dip of an oar into the water) as anything else. Example sentencesExamples - That makes him insubstantially sunny, I suppose.
- ‘I will go, give me the order’, and Dilger galloped ahead, contributing not insubstantially to the throwing back of the enemy.
- How their pale Swedish arms, like sea-polyps, swayed and wavered insubstantially in the northern air!
- It is a soporific reverie that wafts gently and beguilingly but ultimately insubstantially.
Origin Early 17th century: from late Latin insubstantialis, from in- 'not' + substantialis (see substantial). Definition of insubstantial in US English: insubstantialadjectiveˌɪnsəbˈstæn(t)ʃ(ə)lˌinsəbˈstan(t)SH(ə)l 1Lacking strength and solidity. the huts are relatively few and insubstantial Example sentencesExamples - So if you think this is a site you're likely to read often and get something out of, we're asking if you can chip in some funds for the not insubstantial costs of launching the new site and getting it on its feet.
- Before this time, uranium mining was insubstantial; the only reason it was mined was to obtain radium for cancer treatment and fluorescent dials.
- Relative to the musical company into which he's been thrust, his vocal melodies are insubstantial and lyrics pretty but vague.
- Otherwise we get a philosophy that tends to become insubstantial and vaporous.
- And so they didn't seem showy and insubstantial, they seemed like real thoughts that had a particular weight.
- What they almost all had in common was that they cost a lot of money, made you miserable and resulted in staggeringly insubstantial weight losses that were completely negated by your drinking a glass of water.
- Despite some stalwart work by those at the helm of the second and youth teams, the structures that support them are insubstantial, and the development of the game in the community is patchy at best.
- Readers may safely treat his latest intervention as being what it appears to be: hasty, heated, and insubstantial.
- Yet when, outraged at such affront, we stand on our rights and demand redress, we would do well to remember how insubstantial the dignity is on which those rights are based.
- As one pack of financial cards falls after another, US capitalism will experience a cleansing of the most exposed and insubstantial parts of the financialised economy.
- Contrariwise, juries may convict where the judicial decision-maker would find the evidence insubstantial.
- It amused me to see the insubstantial evidence you had pieced together as your argument against airguns.
- However, the article views the dispute as insubstantial.
- But no matter how many more dot.coms go bust, nobody should infer from the fall-out that the engines of the new economy are passing, insubstantial fashions soon to fade.
- It's feared a wooden fence separating the two properties was insubstantial, and people standing on the balconies of their new homes would be able to look down on gardens surrounding the Lodge.
- What has been written is vague and insubstantial.
- Because thoughts are insubstantial until we bring them into some kind of material reality with speech, writing, art, machines etc.
- Whether you think it's lovely but insubstantial, or lovely and great, will depend in large part on what you expect from greatness.
- It was his fatuous, smirky tone and insubstantial jibes.
- Any justification very likely can appear or be made to appear judgmental, discriminatory, unfairly harsh, insubstantial or even anachronistic.
Synonyms flimsy, slight, light, fragile, breakable, weak, frail, shaky, unstable, wobbly, tottery, rickety, ramshackle, makeshift weak, flimsy, feeble, poor, inadequate, insufficient, thin, slight, tenuous, insignificant, inconsequential, unsubstantial, unconvincing, implausible, unsatisfactory, paltry, trifling, trivial, shallow - 1.1 Not solid or real; imaginary.
the flickering light made her face seem insubstantial Example sentencesExamples - Scare story: if spirits weren't so frustratingly insubstantial, Ham House could sell 'em by the pound.
- She had never seemed so insubstantial, so illusory.
- Motoko can make herself and others invisible, inaudible, insubstantial… you get the idea.
- We who lived in the suburbs of towns that were themselves anonymous and mediocre were exiles from the city's Real: insubstantial wraiths, resigned to our status as non-beings.
- What strangers we meet are wraith-like, insubstantial, as if at a quarter-turn from our reality.
- She becomes daily more insubstantial, her figure wraithlike.
- The figure, in its nakedness, has an almost ghostly, insubstantial quality, a pathetic vulnerability.
- Grandma and grandpa were there too, only in like a sort of ghostly insubstantial form.
- At times, the book is about as convincing as a fairytale, proffering only light and insubstantial imaginings.
- Her illegitimate position has rendered her wraithlike and insubstantial, almost disembodied.
- The basic unit of classical space is the room, and we should think of it not as a void but as an expansive, albeit insubstantial and invisible, mass.
Synonyms intangible, impalpable, indefinable, indescribable, vague, obscure, unclear, indistinct
Origin Early 17th century: from late Latin insubstantialis, from in- ‘not’ + substantialis (see substantial). |