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!
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Unsubstantial
Synonyms for "unsubstantial" (205 found)
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discarnatedisembodieddisintegratingdreamlikedreamyeffeminateerroneousetherealextramundanefallaciousfalsefancifulfantasticfantasticalfeeblefineflimsyfragilefrailfrangible
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gaseousghostlygimcrackgimcrackygossameryhazardousillusionalillusionaryillusiveillusoryimaginaryimmaterialimpalpableimplausibleimponderableimprobableinconceivableinconclusiveincorporateincorporealincredibleinfirminsecureinsignificantintangiblejerryjerry builtjerry-builtlightlightweightmeaninglessmerely nominalmetaphysicalmisleadingnamby pambynamby-pambynonmaterialnonphysical
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nonsubstantialnot realoccultostensibleotherworldlypalepaperypasteboardyperilousphantasmagoricphantasmalphantompoorpoorishprecariousprovisionalpsychicpsychicalpunyramshackle
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rarerarefiedriskyrottenrotten atseemingself-deceptiveself-deludingshadowyshakyshatteryshiftingshiftysissifiedsleazyslightslipperyspeciousspectralspiritualsubtilesubtlesupernaturalsupposititioustackytemporarytentativetenuousthickthinthinnedthinned-outticklishtransmundanetreacherousunactualunbelievableuncompactuncompressedunconcreteunconvincingundependableunearthlyunembodiedunextendedunfaithworthyunfirmunfleshlyunfoundedunphysicalunprovedunrealunrealisticunreliableunrigorousunsolidunsoundunstableunsteadfastunsteadyunsturdyunsubstancedunsureunsustaineduntrustworthyunworldlyvaguevaporousvisionarywateredwatered downwatered-downweakweaklyweightlesswindywispywomanish
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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.
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They shook hands upon it, and Sydney turned away. Within a minute afterward he was, to all outward appearance, as unsubstantial as ever.
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Psychoanalysis, the modern science of reading dreams, has taught us to take heed of these unsubstantial images.
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