单词 | insubstantial |
释义 | insubstantial/ɪnsəbˈstanʃ(ə)l /adjective 1Lacking strength and solidity: the huts are relatively few and insubstantial insubstantial evidence...
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 1.1Not having physical existence: the flickering light made her face seem insubstantial...
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 Derivativesinsubstantiality
insubstantially
OriginEarly 17th century: from late Latin insubstantialis, from in- 'not' + substantialis (see substantial). |
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