Antonyms for in substantial
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : in-suh b-stan-shuh l |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪn səbˈstæn ʃəl |
- able
- abundant
- accurate
- active
- actual
- adequate
- ample
- attracting
- authentic
- balanced
- believeable
- big
- black
- bold
- brave
- bright
- brunette
- capable
- certain
- chubby
- clean
- clear
- cloudy
- clumsy
- coarse
- colored
- colorful
- competent
- complete
- concentrated
- concrete
- confident
- confronting
- consequential
- convincing
- correct
- dark
- darkened
- definite
- dense
- difficult
- dim
- distinct
- durable
- dusky
- earthly
- effective
- efficient
- encountering
- enduring
- enough
- enticing
- existent
- existing
- expert
- facing
- factual
- fat
- finished
- firm
- fit
- flushed
- foggy
- fruitful
- full
- generous
- genuine
- gloomy
- glowing
- good
- grave
- great
- guarded
- happy
- hardy
- healthy
- hearty
- heavy
- honest
- important
- incessant
- indelicate
- inflated
- intelligent
- intelligible
- inviting
- just
- laborious
- large
- lasting
- lengthy
- liberal
- light
- likely
- long
- long-lasting
- long-lived
- loud
- major
- material
- meaningful
- neverending
- nice
- noisy
- nontransparent
- normal
- obese
- objective
- obscure
- obscured
- obvious
- opaque
- oppressive
- overweight
- palpable
- perceptible
- perfect
- permanent
- perpetual
- persistent
- physical
- plausible
- plentiful
- plenty
- plump
- poor
- potent
- powerful
- productive
- profitable
- protected
- radiant
- rational
- real
- reasonable
- reliable
- rich
- right
- rough
- safe
- sane
- secure
- sensible
- serious
- significant
- smart
- solemn
- solid
- sound
- stable
- steady
- strict
- strong
- sturdy
- substantial
- sufficient
- sure
- tall
- tangible
- thick
- tough
- translucent
- true
- unbreakable
- understandable
- undiluted
- undying
- unshaky
- unwavering
- useful
- valid
- valuable
- wealthy
- weighted
- well
- wide
- wise
- worldly
- worthwhile
- young
Definition of in substantial
Origin :- c.1600, from Medieval Latin insubstantialis, from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + substantialis (see substantial). Related: Insubstantially.
- As in inadequate : adj defective, insufficient, incompetent
- As in insecure : adj dangerous, precarious
- As in insubstantial : adj weak, imaginary
- As in jerry-built : adj flimsy
- As in light : adj not heavy
- As in meager : adj small, inadequate; poor
- As in meaningless : adj without use, value, worth
- As in metaphysical : adj not physical; without physical presence
- As in nonexistent : adj fictional, not real
- As in pale : adj light in color or effect
- As in paper : adj thin, flimsy
- As in piddly : adj meager, trivial
- As in slender/slim : adj thin, not heavy
- As in slight : adj insignificant, small
- As in tenuous : adj weak, thin
- As in thin : adj deficient, weak
- As in transient/transitory : adj temporary, brief
- As in unreal : adj fake, make-believe; hypothetical
- As in unsound : adj not well; flimsy
- As in weak : adj not strong
- As in imagined : adj not real
- As in transient : adj temporary
- As in vaporous : adj airy
- As in bodiless : adj incorporeal
- As in nonphysical : adj immaterial
- As in scant : adj meager
- As in tottering : adj insecure
- As in tottery : adj insecure
- As in unbodied : adj immaterial
- As in uncorporal : adj immaterial
- As in waterish : adj pale
- As in weakly : adj infirm
- As in weightless : adj light
- As in decrepit : adj deteriorated, debilitated, especially as a result of age
- As in elusive : adj evasive, mysterious
- As in ethereal : adj delicate, heavenly
- As in feeble : adj not strong; ineffective
- As in filmy : adj finespun, fragile
- As in flimsy : adj not strong; light, thin
- As in fragile : adj breakable, dainty
- As in frail : adj breakable, weak
- As in gauzy : adj see-through, gossamer in texture
- As in ghostly : adj spooky
- As in impalpable : adj intangible, unsubstantial
Synonyms for in substantial
- absent
- abstract
- abstruse
- absurd
- aerial
- aged
- agile
- ailing
- aimless
- airy
- ambiguous
- anemic
- anile
- antiquated
- apparitional
- artificial
- ashen
- ashy
- asomatous
- atmospheric
- attenuate
- attenuated
- baffling
- bare
- barren
- baseless
- battered
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bedraggled
- blanched
- blank
- bleached
- bloodless
- bodiless
- brief
- brittle
- broken-down
- buoyant
- bush-league
- cadaverous
- cagey
- cardboard
- celestial
- changeable
- cheap
- chicken
- chiffon
- chimerical
- cobwebby
- colorless
- corpselike
- crazed
- creaky
- crippled
- crisp
- crumbly
- cut-rate
- dainty
- dangerous
- dead
- deathlike
- debilitated
- deceitful
- deceptive
- deciduous
- decrepit
- deep
- defective
- defenseless
- deficient
- defunct
- delicate
- delusive
- demented
- departed
- depleted
- deranged
- diaphanous
- diddly
- difficult
- difficult to catch
- dilapidated
- diluted
- dim
- disbodied
- discarnate
- discorporate
- diseased
- disembodied
- disposable
- divine
- doddering
- doesn't cut it
- dopey
- double-talk
- doublespeak
- doubtful
- doughy
- downy
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- dry
- dubious
- dull
- easy
- eerie
- effervescent
- effete
- eidolic
- elusory
- emasculated
- emigrating
- empty
- empyreal
- empyrean
- enervated
- enfeebled
- ephemeral
- equivocal
- erroneous
- esoteric
- eternal
- ethereal
- etiolated
- evanescent
- exhausted
- exiguous
- exposed
- exquisite
- extinct
- extinguished
- fabled
- fabulous
- faded
- failing
- faint
- fairy
- fallacious
- false
- faltering
- fancied
- fanciful
- fat
- faulty
- featherweight
- feathery
- feckless
- feeble
- few and far between
- fictitious
- fictive
- figmental
- filmy
- fine
- fine-grained
- fishy
- flabby
- flaccid
- flash
- flat
- flawed
- fleeting
- flimsy
- flitting
- floatable
- floating
- floaty
- fluctuant
- fluffy
- fly-by-night
- flying
- foggy
- forceless
- found wanting
- fracturable
- fragile
- frail
- frangible
- fraudulent
- friable
- frothy
- fugacious
- fugitive
- fundamental
- fustian
- futile
- gaseous
- gauzy
- gentle
- ghastly
- ghostlike
- ghostly
- glitch
- going by
- gone
- good-for-nothing
- gossamer
- gossamery
- graceful
- gray
- greasy
- groundless
- haggard
- halituous
- hallucinatory
- halting
- haunted
- hazardous
- hazy
- heavenly
- helpless
- hesitant
- high-flown
- hollow
- holy
- hot air
- house of cards
- hypothetical
- ideal
- idle
- ill
- illogical
- illusory
- imaginary
- imagined
- immaterial
- immature
- impalpable
- imperceptible
- imperfect
- impermanent
- implausible
- imponderable
- imponderous
- impotent
- imprecise
- improbable
- impuissant
- in poor health
- inaccurate
- inadequate
- inane
- inappreciable
- inapt
- incapable
- incapacitated
- incommensurate
- incompetent
- incomplete
- incomprehensible
- inconceivable
- incongruous
- inconsequential
- inconsiderable
- incorporate
- incorporeal
- incorrect
- incredible
- indecisive
- indefinable
- indiscernible
- indistinct
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inefficient
- infertile
- infirm
- insane
- insecure
- insensible
- insignificant
- insincere
- insubstantial
- insufficient
- intangible
- intellectual
- invalid
- invented
- irresolute
- jerry-rigged
- jesuitic
- junk
- junky
- lackadaisical
- lacking
- laid low
- lame
- languid
- languorous
- lean
- legendary
- lemon
- light
- light as a feather
- light-footed
- lightweight
- limp
- lithe
- little
- livid
- loose
- lost
- lousy
- low
- lucid
- lunatic
- lurid
- mad
- makeshift
- meager
- measly
- mere
- metaphysical
- microscopic
- migrating
- minimum
- minor
- minus
- minute
- miserable
- miserly
- misleading
- missing
- misty
- mock
- modest
- momentary
- moving
- mystical
- mythical
- narrow
- nebulous
- negative
- negligible
- niggardly
- nimble
- nonexistent
- nonmaterial
- nonphysical
- nonsensical
- not enough
- not solid
- nothing
- notional
- nugatory
- null
- null and void
- numinous
- occult
- off
- old
- open to attack
- ostensible
- out of gas
- outside
- oversubtle
- pale
- pallid
- paltry
- paper-thin
- papery
- parsimonious
- passed away
- passed on
- passing
- pasty
- pellucid
- perilous
- perished
- petty
- phantasmagoric
- phantasmal
- phantom
- philosophical
- piddling
- pointless
- poor
- porous
- portable
- powerless
- precarious
- pretended
- preternatural
- profound
- prostrate
- provisional
- psychic
- puny
- purportless
- purposeless
- puzzling
- quavering
- questionable
- ramshackle
- rare
- rarefied
- reachy
- recondite
- reedy
- refined
- remote
- rickety
- rinky-dink
- rinkydink
- rocky
- romantic
- rootless
- rotten
- run-down
- sad
- sallow
- sandy
- sapless
- scant
- scanty
- scarce
- scary
- scattered
- scrimp
- scrimpy
- see-through
- seedy
- seeming
- senile
- senseless
- sensile
- shabby
- shadowy
- shaking
- shaky
- shallow
- sham
- shatterable
- shattery
- sheer
- shifty
- shivery
- shoddy
- short
- short-lived
- short-term
- shy
- sick
- sickly
- skeleton
- sketchy
- skimp
- skimpy
- skinny
- slapdash
- sleazy
- slender
- slight
- slim
- slippery
- slipshod
- sluggish
- small
- smoggy
- spare
- sparse
- specious
- spectral
- spent
- spindly
- spiritlike
- spiritual
- spongy
- sprightly
- stalky
- sterile
- stick
- stingy
- stinted
- stonewalling
- storybook
- strengthless
- stretched
- stunted
- subjective
- sublime
- subtle
- superannuated
- superficial
- superhuman
- superior
- supermundane
- supernal
- supernatural
- supine
- suppositious
- supposititious
- suprahuman
- supramundane
- supranatural
- svelte
- sylphlike
- tacky
- tame
- temporal
- tender
- tenuous
- theoretical
- thick
- thin
- thought up
- threadbare
- threadlike
- tiffany
- tired
- tissuelike
- too little
- too little too late
- torpid
- tottering
- tottery
- transcendental
- transient
- transitory
- translucent
- transmigratory
- transparent
- tricky
- trifling
- trim
- trivial
- tumble-down
- twiggy
- two-bit
- unapparent
- unbacked
- unbalanced
- unbelievable
- unbodied
- uncanny
- uncertain
- unconvincing
- uncorporal
- undependable
- unearthly
- unembodied
- unequal
- unessential
- unfinished
- unfleshly
- unfruitful
- ungrounded
- unguarded
- unhealthy
- unheavy
- unhinged
- unimportant
- universal
- unmeaning
- unobservable
- unperceivable
- unpersuasive
- unphysical
- unproductive
- unprotected
- unpurposed
- unqualified
- unreal
- unreliable
- unsafe
- unshielded
- unsound
- unspecific
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsubstantial
- unsure
- untenable
- unwell
- unworldly
- used
- useless
- vacant
- vacating
- vacillating
- vague
- vain
- valueless
- vampiric
- vapid
- vaporous
- vapory
- visionary
- vitiated
- void
- volatile
- vulnerable
- wafer-thin
- wan
- wanting
- washed-out
- wasted
- watery
- wavering
- waxen
- waxlike
- weak
- weak-kneed
- weakened
- weakly
- weather-beaten
- weightless
- weird
- white
- whitish
- willowy
- wimpy
- wishy-washy
- wispy
- without foundation
- wobbly
- woozy
- worn
- worn-out
- worthless
- wraithlike
- wraithy
- zero
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