Usually means: Lacking strength, solidity, or reality.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word unsubstantial:

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  1. unsubstantial: Merriam-Webster
  2. unsubstantial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unsubstantial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unsubstantial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unsubstantial: Vocabulary.com
  6. unsubstantial: Wordnik
  7. unsubstantial: Wiktionary
  8. unsubstantial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. unsubstantial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. unsubstantial: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. unsubstantial: Dictionary.com
  12. Unsubstantial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. unsubstantial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. unsubstantial: Rhymezone
  15. Unsubstantial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. unsubstantial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. unsubstantial: FreeDictionary.org
  18. unsubstantial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. unsubstantial: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unsubstantial: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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▸ adjective:  (archaic) Insubstantial.

Similar:
unreal, insubstantial, wraithlike, shadowy, ethereal, airy, aery, aerial, aeriform, nonsubstantial, more...

Opposite:
substantial, real, tangible, material, physical

Phrases:
unsubstantial result, more...



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Similar:
unreal, insubstantial, wraithlike, shadowy, ethereal, airy, aery, aerial, aeriform, nonsubstantial, more...

Opposite:
substantial, real, tangible, material, physical

Phrases:
unsubstantial result, more...



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