unsubstantial

unsubstantial
Synonyms and related words:
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

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Unsubstantial — Un sub*stan tial, a. Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • unsubstantial — index baseless, delusive, erroneous, futile, ill founded, illusory, immaterial, impalpable, imponderable …   Law dictionary

  • unsubstantial — mid 15c., from UN (Cf. un ) (1) “not” + SUBSTANTIAL (Cf. substantial) …   Etymology dictionary

  • unsubstantial — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ having little or no solidity, reality, or factual basis …   English terms dictionary

  • unsubstantial — [un΄səb stan′shəl] adj. not substantial; specif., a) having no material substance b) not solid or heavy; flimsy; light c) unreal; visionary unsubstantiality [un΄səbstan΄shē al′ə tē] n. unsubstantially adv …   English World dictionary

  • unsubstantial — unsubstantiality, n. unsubstantially, adv. /un seuhb stan sheuhl/, adj. 1. not substantial; having no foundation in fact; fanciful; insubstantial: an unsubstantial argument; unsubstantial hopes. 2. without material substance: an unsubstantial… …   Universalium

  • unsubstantial — adjective Date: 15th century not substantial ; lacking substance, firmness, or strength < unsubstantial shadows > • unsubstantiality noun • unsubstantially adverb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Unsubstantial Blues — Infobox ESC entry song = flagicon|Hungary Unsubstantial Blues caption = language = English artist = Magdi Rúzsa with = year = 2007 country = Hungary composer = Magdi Rúzsa lyricist = Imre Mózsik place = 9th points = 128 place semi = 2nd points… …   Wikipedia

  • unsubstantial — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Flimsy] Syn. fragile, frail, thin; see light 5 . 2. [Unreal] Syn. visionary, vaporous, imaginary; see fantastic 1 , unbelievable . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Having no body, form, or substance . bodiless,… …   English dictionary for students

  • unsubstantial — adj. not solid, not concrete, lacking a foundation; flimsy, weak …   English contemporary dictionary

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