Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity.
Lacking in nutritive value.
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Examples for "insubstantial"
Examples for "insubstantial"
1Another said there was an unclear economic link, but thought it insubstantial.
2He is at his best when thus able to embody the insubstantial.
3The claim that such weapons will be found now looks increasingly insubstantial.
4They were insubstantial as individuals, but en masse they had considerable authority.
5Warriors were ghostly, insubstantial images, reflections floating on the sea of death.
Lacking interest or significance or impact.
1Facebook Twitter Pinterest 'Britain has had a bellyful of Davis's jejune blather.
2Howel had become jejune, and limited very much by his failing sight.
3The jejune stories told about them by Manetho seemed to confirm this idea.
4And at length I find myself compounding the following jejune lines:
5Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectation.
6Here the people are calm and phlegmatic; their speech is jejune, lacks color.
7Click here to listen Actually, she sounds simultaneously youthful and careworn, jejune and fatigued.
8Thus, instead of severe, he became rigid, and his plainness is not unfrequently jejune.
9The reality did not correspond; it transcended his imagination; it painfully demonstrated his jejune crudity.
10There was no need to spoil this moment with something as jejune as the truth.
11Hillary's post-debate spinners called his answer irresponsible and jejune.
12In fact, he was raising the League from a jejune experiment into a flourishing organization.
13So she tried to fill in his jejune outlines.
14Britain has had a bellyful of Davis's jejune blather.
15But compared to this mob, they were jejune provincials.
16Cicero alludes to his style as being jejune and puerile, Brut., c. 64, De Legg.