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Meanings of unreal in English
Portuguese
insubstancial Lacking material form or substance; unreal.
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Examples for "insubstantial"
Examples for "insubstantial"
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.
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 unreal in English
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.
6
The landscape seemed unreal, with the quality of an especially vivid dream.
7
Everything seemed remote and unreal in the shadow of her coming time.
8
Especially is this true of unreal conditions in past time; for example,-
9
In winter, the time of stories, easy warmth was an unreal memory.
10
This whole situation was unreal- atavernstory headed for a dark end.
11
And such was the strangeness of it, the real now became unreal.
12
There was something completely unreal about the way it was being... managed.
13
Or else we shall be lost among the unreal and the real.
14
He took no interest in the unreal charm that that head expressed.
15
The hobgoblins in a nightmare seemed not more unreal to him now.
16
And in this sling, in this completely unreal ascent, Cochrane roused suddenly.
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