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Meanings of unsubstantial in English

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insubstancial

Lacking material form or substance; unreal.

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      Usage of unsubstantial in English
      1
      Change and decay are ever at work upon them; they are unsubstantial.
      Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing
      2
      But when the pinch came it proved as unsubstantial there as elsewhere.
      The Winning of the West, Volume 4 / Louisiana and the Northwest,...
      3
      In dreamland alone does everything seem plain, and there all is unsubstantial.
      The Soul of the Far East
      4
      Nevertheless, Elijah lived two weeks on the unsubstantial memory of this meeting.
      A Drift from Redwood Camp
      5
      One other reminiscence of Roosevelt at Harvard, almost as unsubstantial as this.
      Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography
      6
      Mere 'lick of the tongue' love, without these, is an unsubstantial shadow.-Ed.
      Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
      7
      An amorphous yet unsubstantial mass that encompassed her exposed shins easily.
      The outsiders
      8
      The light must find no impediment in the unsubstantial matter of divine beings.
      Confessions of Boyhood
      9
      The exterior has a strange and elegant but somewhat unsubstantial effect.
      Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
      10
      I have to find her, and soon, for she was getting rather unsubstantial.
      Heartless
      11
      Lehzen, the Baron, Uncle Leopold, are unsubstantial shadows-theincidental supers of the piece.
      Queen Victoria
      12
      The blustering ocean, the dizzy cliffs of Devon, melt like an unsubstantial pageant.
      Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates
      13
      The stormy ocean, the dizzy cliffs of Devon, melt like an unsubstantial pageant.
      Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates
      14
      The suburbs are, if possible, even more unsubstantial-looking than the city.
      American Notes
      15
      Riley and twelve armed seamen were following him like so many unsubstantial spectres.
      Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz: Fighting with the U.S. Navy in Mexico
      16
      Certainly not the vapory, unsubstantial kind that flit through mansions such as mine.
      The Statesmen Snowbound
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