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unsubstantial

adj

Etymology

From un- + substantial.

  1. derived from substantiālis
  2. derived from substanciel
  3. inherited from substancial
  4. prefixed as unsubstantial — “un + substantial”

Definitions

  1. Insubstantial.

    • What boots it, that my Fortune decks me thus / With unſubſtantial Plumes; when my Heart groans / Beneath the gay Capariſon, and Love / With unrequited Paſſion wounds my Soul!
    • They are (said he) meer phantoms of ignorance and credulity, swelled up in the repetition, like those unsubstantial bubbles which the boys blow up in sopasuds with a tobacco pipe.
    • They shook hands upon it, and Sydney turned away. Within a minute afterward he was, to all outward appearance, as unsubstantial as ever.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unsubstantial. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01unsubstantial02insubstantial03real04fake05presented06presentation07appearance08apparition09ghost

A definitional loop anchored at unsubstantial. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at unsubstantial

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA