unsubstantial

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You as a person were entirely unsubstantial to him.

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Quick take

lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"

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adjective

lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for unsubstantial.

adjective

lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"

Example sentences

You as a person were entirely unsubstantial to him.

It's not an unsubstantial amount of money to drop on a self-hosted webapp.

Try to engage the topic instead of pounding sand about unsubstantial edits.

As evident by the reactions, not being specific here only serves to make LV's claims seem unsubstantial.

Most unsubstantial article ever, with 69 upvotes and counting.

I guess the downvote was because my pendantic and unsubstantial comment was of low signal:noise ratio for the HN discussion

This is a somewhat inflammatory title with a fairly unsubstantial article behind it.

We spent a not unsubstantial amount of time moaning about our inability to use you guys here in Canada, if that's any comfort.

And in realizing that the difference between human beings is unsubstantial, the only way to determine your worth as a human is how well you treated your fellows.

Sometimes I just want to release my id - say, for engaging with a not-unsubstantial population on HN of people whose intellect doesn't keep pace with their arrogance.