unsubstant

English

Etymology

un- +‎ substant

Adjective

unsubstant (comparative more unsubstant, superlative most unsubstant)

1. (obsolete or poetic) insubstantial
   • 1850, Walter Richard Cassels, Eidolon, or, The course of a soul: and other poems:

     Pursuing ever with insatiate thirst / And aspiration, some unsubstant aim.

   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:

     What was precise was now enormous, unsubstant, diaphanous, for he had seen her.