Word Meanings - UNSUBSTANTIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNSUBSTANTIAL)

• Hollow \adj
• (Metaphor)
• Empty
• concave
• foolish
• weak
• faithless
• insincere
• artificial
• unsubstantial
• void
• flimsy
• transparent
• senseless
• vacant
• unsound
• false
• Light
• Imponderous
• portable
• unweighty
• buoyant
• volatile
• easy
• digestible
• scanty
• active
• unencumbered
• empty
• slight
• gentle
• unsteady
• capricious
• vain
• frivolous
• characterless
• thoughtless
• unthoughtful
• unconsidered
• inadequate
• incompact
• inconsiderable
• not difficult
• bright
• whitish
• trifling
• Void
• Wanting
• useless
• nugatory
• destitute
• bereft
• unoccupied
• unfilled
• lacking
• invalid
• null

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of UNSUBSTANTIAL)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to UNSUBSTANTIAL)

• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• LIGHT
  licht, OHG. lioht, Goth. liuhap, Icel. lj, L. lux light, lucere to 1. That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. Note: Light was regarded formerly
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• CONCAVED
  Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• CAPRICIOUS
  Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful;
• CONCAVE
  1. Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky. 2. Hollow; void
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• LIGHTSOME
  1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness
• DIGESTIBLE
  Capable of being digested.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• LIGHTNESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility;
• PORTABLENESS
  The quality or state of being portable; portability.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• CLACK
  MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the
• DRUMMOND LIGHT
  A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.