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insubstantial

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[ UK /ˈɪnsəbstˌɑːnʃə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnsəbˈstænʃəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking in nutritive value
    an insubstantial and unsatisfying meal
  2. lacking solidity or strength
    vinyl siding has become the standard-bearer for cheap, insubstantial construction
    a flimsy table
    flimsy construction
  3. lacking material form or substance; unreal
    an insubstantial mirage on the horizon
    as insubstantial as a dream

How To Use insubstantial In A Sentence

  • Her illegitimate position has rendered her wraithlike and insubstantial, almost disembodied.
  • Readers may safely treat his latest intervention as being what it appears to be: hasty, heated, and insubstantial.
  • She seemed somehow insubstantial - a shadow of a woman.
  • Despite its rather insubstantial construction, the basket weighs thirty troy ounces and presages the simple elegance of the neoclassical style.
  • an insubstantial and unsatisfying meal
  • As an outcome of meditative experience, whatever appearances may arise can be transformed through meditative insight into a realization of the nature of all things as insubstantial, uncompounded, and only existing interdependently.
  • He continues by breaking down UxD, examining how each element implied in the title illuminate his hypothesis - that the ephemeral and insubstantial Comments at Boxes and Arrows
  • And in any case, we could take the second meaning of the word ‘insubstantial’ into consideration and say that dreams are meaningless and far too nonsensical.
  • He looks too insubstantial to be a serious cricketer. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
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