insubstantial 的定义
- not substantial or real; lacking substance: an insubstantial world of dreams.
- not solid or firm; weak; flimsy.
- not substantial in amount or size; inconsiderable: an insubstantial sum.
insubstantial 近义词
weak, imaginary
更多insubstantial例句
- However, for the sake of what isn’t an insubstantial investment, don’t mistake that for being fully waterproof.
- Meanwhile, this vast ecosystem of plug-ins brings with it a not-insubstantial number of security vulnerabilities.
- Even these willfully insubstantial constructions are more concrete than Jacqueline Maggi’s diaphanous, unoccupied rectangular enclosure.
- It was at least something, however insubstantial, that he could offer to Karzai at the talks.
- His aspect was as insubstantial as fog, dreams, or an expelled breath, and in this he resembled billions of human beings.
- After a brief market rally on Monday, confidence was snuffed out as traders reckoned the support was insubstantial.
- Insubstantial novelty has more to do with decadence than any form of innovation.
- That was another relative—James Lampton, a cousin—quite as lovable, and a builder of even more insubstantial dreams.
- The coast of America now looked more like a low-lying fringe of insubstantial cloud than solid land.
- Here we may fashion pictures and weave around them gossamer draperies as insubstantial as this golden twilight.
- When viewed in the light of that modern common sense which has guided economic discussion, it seems formal and insubstantial.
- Odd to reflect on—they were the insubstantial but coveted wealth of the woman fallen upon poverty, ignoble poverty!