What is another word for insubstantial?
882 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˈɪnsəbstˌanʃə͡l], [ ˈɪnsəbstˌanʃəl], [ ˈɪ_n_s_ə_b_s_t_ˌa_n_ʃ_əl]
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Similar words for insubstantial:
- airy (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- bodiless (adjective)
- decrepit (adjective)
- elusive (adjective)
- ethereal (adjective)
- feeble (adjective)
- filmy (adjective)
- flimsy (adjective)
- fragile (adjective)
- frail (adjective)
- gauzy (adjective)
- ghostly (adjective)
- imaginary (adjective)
- imagined (adjective)
- impalpable (adjective)
- inadequate (adjective)
- insecure (adjective)
- jerry-built (adjective)
- light (adjective)
- meager (adjective)
- meaningless (adjective)
- metaphysical (adjective)
- nonexistent (adjective)
- nonphysical (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pale (adjective)
- paper (adjective)
- piddly (adjective)
- slender/slim (adjective)
- slight (adjective)
- tenuous (adjective)
- thin (adjective)
- tottering (adjective)
- transient/transitory (adjective)
- unbodied (adjective)
- uncorporal (adjective)
- unreal (adjective)
- unsound (adjective)
- vaporous (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- weakly (adjective)
- weightless (adjective)
- aerial (noun)
- aeriform (noun)
- aery (noun)
- airy (noun)
- flimsy (noun)
- insubstantial (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Insubstantial:
adj.
• airy (adjective) • all (adjective) • bodiless (adjective) • decrepit (adjective)- brokendown,
- be draggled,
- in firmer,
- in-firmest,
- in-firm,
- most tumble down,
- superannuated,
- in firmest,
- more battered,
- creakiest,
- most tumble-down,
- tumble down,
- most quavering,
- most battered,
- more anile,
- more tumble down,
- in-substantial,
- weather beaten,
- in-capacitated,
- in capacitated,
- more tumble-down,
- tumble-down,
- in substantial,
- most worn out,
- most anile,
- more quavering,
- in-firmer,
- rickety,
- be-draggled.
- in definable,
- more phantom,
- in comprehensible,
- fugacious,
- most illusory,
- in-definable,
- in-tangible,
- more elusory,
- most phantom,
- most elusory,
- un-specific,
- in-comprehensible,
- most stonewalling,
- difficult catch,
- mis-leading,
- un specific,
- more stonewalling,
- most unspecific,
- evanescent,
- in tangible,
- more unspecific,
- mis leading.
- sub lime,
- un worldliest,
- un-earthlier,
- re fined,
- un earthly,
- un-earthliest,
- un worldly,
- un earthliest,
- un-earthly,
- sub-lime,
- un-worldlier,
- un-worldly,
- fairier,
- un worldlier,
- un-worldliest,
- un-substantial,
- gossamer,
- un substantial,
- un earthlier,
- fairiest.
- helpless,
- impotent,
- fainter,
- sapless,
- inefficient,
- enervated,
- out of gas,
- insufficient,
- wimpy,
- Strengthless,
- lame.
- floatiest,
- most chiffon,
- more chiffon,
- fine grained,
- trans parent,
- most fine grained,
- more tiffany,
- more finegrained,
- most fine-grained,
- more cobwebby,
- most cobwebby,
- trans-parent,
- more fine grained,
- floatier,
- most tiffany,
- more fine-grained,
- most finegrained,
- finegrained.
- house cards,
- more papery,
- most rinkydink,
- more cut rate,
- most cut rate,
- shallow,
- more cutrate,
- most papery,
- cutrate,
- most cut-rate,
- more rinkydink,
- shallower,
- more cut-rate,
- most cutrate.
- dis embodied,
- in-discernible,
- most imprecise,
- in-sensible,
- un observable,
- un-perceivable,
- in-corporeal,
- in distinct,
- in sensible,
- in-appreciable,
- more unperceivable,
- more imprecise,
- un-apparent,
- in corporeal,
- more unapparent,
- unapparent,
- in discernible,
- in appreciable,
- un apparent,
- in-distinct,
- dis-embodied,
- un-observable,
- un perceivable,
- most unapparent,
- most unperceivable.
- bushleague,
- minus,
- in considerable,
- in-aptest,
- un productive,
- inconsiderable,
- un-productive,
- in commensurate,
- most lemon,
- too little,
- un-qualified,
- most niggardly,
- in-commensurate,
- in-adequate,
- in capable,
- un-equal,
- un qualified,
- junker,
- in apter,
- incapable,
- in complete,
- in-capable,
- most stinted,
- more stinted,
- glitchest,
- incomplete,
- in-apter,
- glitcher,
- un equal,
- in adequate,
- in-considerable,
- more niggardly,
- more lemon,
- in-complete,
- lemon,
- junkest,
- in aptest.
- in-secure,
- most fluctuant,
- un-safe,
- un-stablest,
- un steadier,
- un stabler,
- un guarded,
- in-securer,
- most unshielded,
- un-steadier,
- un stablest,
- un-reliable,
- un-protected,
- most rootless,
- open attack,
- un-guarded,
- in securer,
- un shielded,
- in securest,
- un-safest,
- in-securest,
- un-stable,
- un safer,
- more rootless,
- unguarded,
- more unshielded,
- un steadiest,
- in secure,
- un-steadiest,
- un stable,
- un safest,
- more fluctuant,
- ex-posed,
- un protected,
- un reliable,
- un-safer,
- un safe,
- unprotected,
- ex posed,
- un steady,
- un-stabler,
- un-shielded.
- lightest,
- light-footed,
- frothy,
- Gossamery,
- weightless,
- unheavy,
- Floatable,
- Imponderous,
- sylphlike,
- lithe,
- featherweight,
- tissuelike.
- in fertile,
- in-fertile,
- skimpest,
- un finished,
- scrimpest,
- meager,
- un-fruitful,
- scrimpier,
- un fruitful,
- un-finished,
- scrimpiest.
- jesuitic,
- nonmaterial,
- non-material,
- oversubtle,
- Unfleshly,
- superhuman,
- unphysical,
- Supermundane,
- suprahuman,
- supranatural,
- Supramundane.
- Perished,
- without foundation,
- passed on,
- ungrounded,
- passed away,
- null and void,
- few and far between,
- Non-existent.
- not enough,
- jerry-built,
- transient,
- scrimpy,
- in poor health,
- house of cards,
- fracturable,
- tiffany,
- Shattery,
- decrepit,
- seethrough,
- insecure,
- gauzy,
- doughy,
- creaky,
- piddly,
- rootless,
- broken down,
- sticker,
- flimsy,
- bodiless,
- Fluctuant,
- Stalky,
- creakier,
- papery,
- slight,
- unpersuasive,
- unperceivable,
- whitish,
- feeble,
- weak,
- scant,
- skimper,
- flawed,
- thin,
- imagined,
- Elusory,
- weatherbeaten,
- reedy,
- cut-rate,
- shatterable,
- imprecise,
- Waterish,
- doughier,
- unspecific,
- paper,
- ethereal,
- rinkydink,
- found wanting,
- scrimper,
- floaty,
- see through,
- light,
- unsound,
- beanstalk,
- pale,
- fine-grained,
- frail,
- metaphysical,
- Halituous,
- cobwebby,
- nonexistent,
- anile,
- elusive,
- unreal,
- filmy,
- difficult to catch,
- tottering,
- tenuous,
- in firm,
- niggardly,
- deciduous,
- washed out,
- cut rate,
- light as a feather,
- open to attack,
- inadequate,
- unshielded,
- weakly,
- discorporate,
- unbacked,
- wornout,
- impalpable,
- too little too late,
- chiffon.
- waxlike,
- doughiest,
- in effective,
- more waxlike,
- pasty,
- most bleached,
- most whitish,
- in-effective,
- washedout,
- washed-out,
- more bleached,
- more whitish,
- most waxlike.
- diddliest,
- most rinky dink,
- more rinky-dink,
- two bit,
- rinky-dink,
- diddlier,
- twobit,
- rinky dink,
- more rinky dink,
- most rinky-dink.
- more beanpole,
- more beanstalk,
- more skeleton,
- most beanstalk,
- reedier,
- reediest,
- stalkiest,
- most attenuate,
- stickest,
- more attenuate,
- most beanpole,
- most skeleton,
- stalkier.
- more stretched,
- most weak-kneed,
- in-credible,
- in credible,
- un tenable,
- more weak-kneed,
- more weakkneed,
- most unpersuasive,
- un-believable,
- un persuasive,
- weakkneed,
- more weak kneed,
- un-persuasive,
- in-conceivable,
- most stretched,
- weak kneed,
- most weakkneed,
- un-tenable,
- in conceivable,
- more unpersuasive,
- un believable,
- most diluted.
- fly by night,
- most migrating,
- more deciduous,
- shortlived,
- trans-migratory,
- pro visional,
- most emigrating,
- most deciduous,
- short lived,
- more emigrating,
- most vacating,
- shortterm,
- more migrating,
- flashest,
- trans migratory,
- more vacating,
- short term,
- flasher.
- in correct,
- dis eased,
- un healthy,
- un-sounder,
- in sane,
- un sounder,
- un-balanced,
- un healthier,
- un hinged,
- in-valid,
- in saner,
- more unbacked,
- un-hinged,
- in congruous,
- un sound,
- un-soundest,
- un backed,
- un-healthy,
- de ranged,
- un-healthiest,
- de-ranged,
- in valid,
- in-sane,
- not solid,
- in-congruous,
- un-sound,
- in-saner,
- most unbacked,
- un healthiest,
- un soundest,
- un-backed,
- in sanest,
- in accurate,
- dis-eased.
n.
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- made-up,
- false,
- simulated,
- pretended,
- mock,
- synthetic,
- fictitious,
- fake,
- hypothetical.
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- diminutive,
- discreet,
- midget,
- minuscule,
- immaterial,
- body,
- tiny,
- little,
- minute,
- small,
- microscopic.
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- delicate.
- aery.
- airy.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- disembodied,
- infirm,
- incorporeal,
- spiritual,
- puny.
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- fragile.
- juvenile,
- concealed,
- deficit,
- dreamlike,
- sophistic,
- uncompressed,
- unworldly,
- attenuated,
- wobbling,
- untrustworthy,
- assumed,
- review,
- volatile,
- gingerbread,
- desultory,
- Non-essential,
- field day,
- treacherous,
- hidden,
- capricious,
- pageant,
- trivial,
- hallucinatory,
- girlish,
- unsure,
- thin-bodied,
- external,
- precarious,
- niggling,
- transparent,
- deep,
- thinned,
- broken-down,
- unrealistic,
- arcane,
- nominal,
- delusive,
- conceptual,
- indefinite,
- namby-pamby,
- outward,
- illusional,
- watered,
- transitive,
- unavailing,
- flashy,
- facile,
- adulterated,
- unextended,
- Inexistent,
- windy,
- tatty,
- surface,
- insipid,
- inessential,
- finespun,
- Slinky,
- scarceness,
- perishable,
- ineffectual,
- Extramundane,
- nugatory,
- slipshod,
- dainty,
- Uncompact,
- gaseous,
- doubtful,
- vain,
- illusive,
- minor,
- pageantry,
- nebulous,
- boyish,
- paucity,
- delusory,
- remote,
- bootless,
- unreliable,
- creaking,
- supernatural,
- unprofound,
- brittle,
- fleeting,
- fugitive,
- underage,
- peekaboo,
- pointless,
- spectral,
- hazy,
- cursory,
- fantastic,
- meagre,
- blank,
- sketchy,
- Unsustained,
- fancied,
- falling apart,
- fading,
- Unsteadfast,
- diluted,
- inconclusive,
- derelict,
- hazardous,
- recondite,
- dying,
- deficiency,
- exhibition,
- lightweight,
- visionary,
- cosmetic,
- veiled,
- cut,
- nondurable,
- worthless,
- senseless,
- fly-by-night,
- insignificant,
- rare,
- slim,
- inconstant,
- tawdry,
- unsatisfying,
- incorporate,
- lacy,
- lack,
- abstruse,
- Unsolid,
- impulsive,
- dim,
- demonstration,
- groundless,
- scanty,
- flourish of trumpets,
- skin-deep,
- delusional,
- nonpermanent,
- dubious,
- unsatisfactory,
- artificial,
- Thinnish,
- vague,
- svelte,
- phantasmal,
- Picayunish,
- shifty,
- obscure,
- dreamy,
- cheap,
- unessential,
- poverty,
- fluffy,
- falling down,
- temporal,
- subtle,
- shifting,
- chimeric,
- promenade,
- Wiredrawn,
- shortage,
- frangible,
- misty,
- superficial,
- hallucinative,
- Crumbling,
- wasp-waisted,
- Subtile,
- insufficiency,
- tumbledown,
- provisional,
- flying,
- unsteady,
- celebration,
- apparent,
- exposition,
- slender,
- phantom,
- piddling,
- occult,
- diaphanous,
- run-down,
- perilous,
- makeshift,
- wispy,
- chintzy,
- negligible,
- breakable,
- trifling,
- unearthly,
- corruptible,
- stringy,
- ramshackle,
- irrelevant,
- unimportant,
- willowy,
- gala,
- Omitted,
- temporary,
- delusionary,
- translucent,
- in disrepair,
- watery,
- drooping,
- glib,
- attenuate,
- ruined,
- surreal,
- half-baked,
- cranky,
- formless,
- slippery,
- hallucinational,
- empty,
- undependable,
- beyond repair,
- frivolous,
- watered-down,
- unconvincing,
- phantasmagoric,
- baseless,
- wobbly,
- minimal,
- dilute,
- airy-fairy,
- faint,
- hollow,
- ticklish,
- not difficult,
- purposeless,
- wet,
- unconcrete,
- to no avail,
- phantasmagorical,
- risky,
- dangerous,
- short-lived,
- mutable,
- hypocritical,
- puerile,
- transitory,
- missing,
- flying colors,
- passing,
- chimerical,
- inconsequential,
- spectacle,
- inefficacious,
- fine-drawn,
- changeable,
- unstable,
- dilapidated,
- idle,
- imperceptible,
- fickle,
- sheer,
- unproved,
- fine,
- insincere,
- implausible,
- psychic,
- tottery,
- tentative,
- gracile,
- of no moment,
- otherworldly,
- tomfoolery,
- psychical,
- neglected,
- scantiness,
- ineffective,
- threadlike,
- valueless,
- procession,
- inadequacy,
- illusionary,
- set out,
- astral,
- token,
- impermanent,
- Unenduring,
- feathery,
- rarefied,
- Flitting,
- shabby,
- profound,
- unbelievable,
- paltry,
- impetuous,
- gimcrack,
- adolescent,
- shaky,
- mortal,
- negative,
- sleazy,
- imponderable,
- slick,
- defalcation,
- undirected,
- momentary,
- transmundane.
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Independent
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Adjective
disappointing, flimsy, inconsistent, insufficient, meagre, negligible, scant, scarce, weak.
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feeble, inadequate, inconsequential, insignificant, lean, poor, sparse, thin, trifling, unsatisfactory.
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