英语词汇“insubstantial”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

insubstantial

/ɪnsəbˈstanʃ(ə)l

adjective

1Lacking strength and solidity: the huts are relatively few and insubstantial insubstantial evidence...

Contrariwise, juries may convict where the judicial decision-maker would find the evidence insubstantial.
It amused me to see the insubstantial evidence you had pieced together as your argument against airguns.
What has been written is vague and insubstantial.

Synonyms

flimsy, slight, light, fragile, breakable, weak, frail, shaky, unstable, wobbly, tottery, rickety, ramshackle, makeshift;

jerry-built, badly built, thrown together, cheap, shoddy, gimcrack

weak, flimsy, feeble, poor, inadequate, insufficient, thin, slight, tenuous, insignificant, inconsequential, unsubstantial, unconvincing, implausible, unsatisfactory, paltry, trifling, trivial, shallow

1.1Not having physical existence: the flickering light made her face seem insubstantial...

Her illegitimate position has rendered her wraithlike and insubstantial, almost disembodied.
We who lived in the suburbs of towns that were themselves anonymous and mediocre were exiles from the city's Real: insubstantial wraiths, resigned to our status as non-beings.
She becomes daily more insubstantial, her figure wraithlike.

Synonyms

intangible, impalpable, indefinable, indescribable, vague, obscure, unclear, indistinct;

untouchable, imperceptible to the touch, unsubstantial, incorporeal;

imaginary, imagined, fancied, fanciful, figmental, unreal, non-existent, illusory, illusive, delusive, hallucinatory, phantom, spectral, ghostlike, visionary, chimerical, airy, vaporous

rare immaterial, unbodied, discarnate, phantasmal, phantasmic, inexistent, illusionary

Derivatives

insubstantiality

/ɪnsəbstanʃɪˈalɪti/ noun ...

In spite of the insubstantiality of the materials that Feher uses, his work reveals an underlying muscularity; it's getting pumped up and starting to shoulder itself around.
Mill proposed the insubstantiality of the dreamlike future and also that our feeling for the past may be based upon a cosmic joke, a delusion of the dreaming senses.
This vagueness and insubstantiality is bound up with the director's artistic-intellectual outlook and methods.

insubstantially

adverb ...

That makes him insubstantially sunny, I suppose.
How their pale Swedish arms, like sea-polyps, swayed and wavered insubstantially in the northern air!
‘I will go, give me the order’, and Dilger galloped ahead, contributing not insubstantially to the throwing back of the enemy.

Origin

Early 17th century: from late Latin insubstantialis, from in- 'not' + substantialis (see substantial).

单词	insubstantial
释义	insubstantial /ɪnsəbˈstanʃ(ə)l / adjective 1Lacking strength and solidity: the huts are relatively few and insubstantial insubstantial evidence... Contrariwise, juries may convict where the judicial decision-maker would find the evidence insubstantial. It amused me to see the insubstantial evidence you had pieced together as your argument against airguns. What has been written is vague and insubstantial. Synonyms flimsy, slight, light, fragile, breakable, weak, frail, shaky, unstable, wobbly, tottery, rickety, ramshackle, makeshift; jerry-built, badly built, thrown together, cheap, shoddy, gimcrack weak, flimsy, feeble, poor, inadequate, insufficient, thin, slight, tenuous, insignificant, inconsequential, unsubstantial, unconvincing, implausible, unsatisfactory, paltry, trifling, trivial, shallow 1.1Not having physical existence: the flickering light made her face seem insubstantial... Her illegitimate position has rendered her wraithlike and insubstantial, almost disembodied. We who lived in the suburbs of towns that were themselves anonymous and mediocre were exiles from the city's Real: insubstantial wraiths, resigned to our status as non-beings. She becomes daily more insubstantial, her figure wraithlike. Synonyms intangible, impalpable, indefinable, indescribable, vague, obscure, unclear, indistinct; untouchable, imperceptible to the touch, unsubstantial, incorporeal; imaginary, imagined, fancied, fanciful, figmental, unreal, non-existent, illusory, illusive, delusive, hallucinatory, phantom, spectral, ghostlike, visionary, chimerical, airy, vaporous rare immaterial, unbodied, discarnate, phantasmal, phantasmic, inexistent, illusionary Derivatives insubstantiality /ɪnsəbstanʃɪˈalɪti/ noun ... In spite of the insubstantiality of the materials that Feher uses, his work reveals an underlying muscularity; it's getting pumped up and starting to shoulder itself around. Mill proposed the insubstantiality of the dreamlike future and also that our feeling for the past may be based upon a cosmic joke, a delusion of the dreaming senses. This vagueness and insubstantiality is bound up with the director's artistic-intellectual outlook and methods. insubstantially adverb ... That makes him insubstantially sunny, I suppose. How their pale Swedish arms, like sea-polyps, swayed and wavered insubstantially in the northern air! ‘I will go, give me the order’, and Dilger galloped ahead, contributing not insubstantially to the throwing back of the enemy. Origin Early 17th century: from late Latin insubstantialis, from in- 'not' + substantialis (see substantial).
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