Unsubstantial
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Unsubstantial is an adjective meaning (archaic) Insubstantial.
Meaning
(archaic) Insubstantial.
Example Sentences
Psychoanalysis, the modern science of reading dreams, has taught us to take heed of these unsubstantial images.
They shook hands upon it, and Sydney turned away. Within a minute afterward he was, to all outward appearance, as unsubstantial as ever.
What boots it, that my Fortune decks me thus / With unſubſtantial Plumes; when my Heart groans / Beneath the gay Capariſon, and Love / With unrequited Paſſion wounds my Soul!
They are (said he) meer phantoms of ignorance and credulity, swelled up in the repetition, like those unsubstantial bubbles which the boys blow up in sopasuds with a tobacco pipe.
Synonyms for unsubstantial
Depending on context, synonyms include airy, aery, ethereal, immaterial, insubstantial, tenuous.
Antonyms for unsubstantial
Common opposites include substantial, material, real.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include insubstantial, unreal, shadowy, wraithlike, ethereal, airy.
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