Unsubstantial

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unsubstantial \Unsubstantial\
     See {substantial}.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unsubstantial \Un`sub*stan"tial\, a.


     Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unsubstantial
       adj : lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as
             insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on
             the horizon" [syn: {insubstantial}, {unreal}] [ant: {substantial}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  182 Moby Thesaurus words for "unsubstantial":
     Barmecidal, Barmecide, adulterated, airy, apparent, apparitional,
     asomatous, astral, attenuate, attenuated, autistic, bodiless,
     breakable, brittle, cheap-jack, chimeric, cobwebby, crumbling,
     crumbly, cut, dainty, dangerous, decarnate, decarnated, deceptive,
     decrepit, delicate, delicately weak, delusional, delusionary,
     delusive, delusory, dereistic, desultory, dilute, diluted,
     discarnate, disembodied, disintegrating, dreamlike, dreamy,
     effeminate, erroneous, ethereal, extramundane, fallacious, false,
     fanciful, fantastic, feeble, fine, flimsy, fragile, frail,
     frangible, gaseous, ghostly, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery,
     hazardous, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary,
     immaterial, impalpable, imponderable, improbable, inconceivable,
     inconclusive, incorporate, incorporeal, incredible, infirm,
     insecure, insubstantial, intangible, jerry, jerry-built, light,
     lightweight, merely nominal, metaphysical, misleading, namby-pamby,
     nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, not real, occult,
     ostensible, otherworldly, papery, pasteboardy, perilous,
     phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, poor, poorish, precarious,
     provisional, psychic, puny, rare, rarefied, risky, rotten,
     rotten at, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, shadowy, shaky,
     shattery, shifting, shifty, sissified, sleazy, slight, slippery,
     specious, spectral, spiritual, subtile, subtle, supernatural,
     supposititious, tacky, temporary, tentative, tenuous, thick, thin,
     thinned, thinned-out, ticklish, transmundane, treacherous,
     unactual, unbelievable, uncompact, uncompressed, unconcrete,
     unconvincing, undependable, unearthly, unembodied, unextended,
     unfaithworthy, unfirm, unfleshly, unfounded, unphysical, unproved,
     unreal, unrealistic, unreliable, unrigorous, unsolid, unsound,
     unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsturdy, unsubstanced, unsure,
     unsustained, untrustworthy, unworldly, vaporous, visionary,
     watered, watered-down, weak, weakly, weightless, windy, wispy,
     womanish