Meanings
adjectiveunsubstant (comparative more unsubstant, superlative most unsubstant)
comparative more unsubstant · superlative most unsubstant
- obsoletepoeticinsubstantial
Pursuing ever with insatiate thirst / And aspiration, some unsubstant aim.
1850, Walter Richard Cassels, Eidolon, or, The course of a soul: and other poems1 more example
What was precise was now enormous, unsubstant, diaphanous, for he had seen her.
1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC
Origin
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unsubstant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsubstant
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“unsubstant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsubstant. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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