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Meanings of insubstantial in English
Portuguese
insubstancial Lacking material form or substance; unreal.
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Examples for "unreal"
Examples for "unreal"
1
Eddie's attention to detail is incredible and his work ethic is unreal.
2
The debates in full Convention were animated, but somewhat unreal by comparison.
3
The world seemed unreal and himself the most unreal thing in it.
4
Those that accompanied the archers in pursuit of the Torquasians were unreal.
5
It felt too unreal to respond to, or even entertain as possible.
1
Change and decay are ever at work upon them; they are unsubstantial.
2
But when the pinch came it proved as unsubstantial there as elsewhere.
3
In dreamland alone does everything seem plain, and there all is unsubstantial.
4
Nevertheless, Elijah lived two weeks on the unsubstantial memory of this meeting.
5
One other reminiscence of Roosevelt at Harvard, almost as unsubstantial as this.
Usage of insubstantial in English
1
Another said there was an unclear economic link, but thought it insubstantial.
2
He is at his best when thus able to embody the insubstantial.
3
The claim that such weapons will be found now looks increasingly insubstantial.
4
They were insubstantial as individuals, but en masse they had considerable authority.
5
Warriors were ghostly, insubstantial images, reflections floating on the sea of death.
6
The economic, monetary and banking crises make references to poems appear insubstantial.
7
Earth and sky were blended together in the same insubstantial grey element.
8
They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles.
9
They have dressed her in blue and she looks cold and insubstantial.
10
She married the Marquis of Vaccarone, a babbling Neapolitan, insubstantial and light.
11
Even those few boards that remained beneath his feet were becoming insubstantial.
12
They were blurred and insubstantial, like things remembered rather than actually seen.
13
He took shape in front of me, but he was still insubstantial.
14
Zeena herself, from an oppressive reality, had faded into an insubstantial shade.
15
He lets it go again with the gorgeous, cool, infuriatingly insubstantial Life.
16
My stomach may have been insubstantial, but it could still writhe uneasily.
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