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What does insubstantial mean?

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Adjective
  1. Lacking substance; not real or strong.
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What strangers we meet are wraith-like, insubstantial, as if at a quarter-turn from our reality.
It amused me to see the insubstantial evidence you had pieced together as your argument against airguns.
The sleeves were made of a filmy, translucent red material, so insubstantial that it was almost not there.
Contrariwise, juries may convict where the judicial decision-maker would find the evidence insubstantial.
Relative to the musical company into which he's been thrust, his vocal melodies are insubstantial and lyrics pretty but vague.
And so they didn't seem showy and insubstantial, they seemed like real thoughts that had a particular weight.

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