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substanceless, a.|ˈsʌbstənslɪs| [f. substance n. + -less.] Devoid of substance, unsubstantial.
1816Coleridge Hum. Life Poems 316 If rootless thus, thus substanceless thy state. 1822W. Tennant Thane of Fife vi. 32 That conclave substanceless of gilded things. 1858Lytton What will He do? ix. i, You have made that life substanceless as a ghost—that future barren as the grave. 1895Moir in Galt's Wks. I. p. xci, The arguments..might be..too shadowy and substanceless to convey intellectual satisfaction. |