Thesaurus:insubstantial

Thesaurus

insubstantial

English

Adjective

Sense: lacking substance; not real or strong

Synonyms

• airy
• ethereal
• immaterial
• insubstantial
• tenuous
• unreal
• unsubstantial (archaic)

Antonyms

• substantial    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• dreamy
• empty
• gaseous    [⇒ thesaurus]
• gossamer
• hollow
• imaginary
• illusory
• shadowy
• spectral

Further reading

• “4. unsubstantiality” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “insubstantial” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.