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UK
/ˈɪnsəbstˌɑːnʃəl/
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[ US /ˌɪnsəbˈstænʃəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnsəbˈstænʃəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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lacking in nutritive value
an insubstantial and unsatisfying meal -
lacking solidity or strength
vinyl siding has become the standard-bearer for cheap, insubstantial construction
a flimsy table
flimsy construction -
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.
