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adj. lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen; "that intangible thing--the soul"

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

adj. lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"

adj. lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"

aery, aeriform, airy, ethereal

adj. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms"

immaterial, incorporeal

adj. without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit"

spiritual, nonmaterial, unearthly

adj. lacking material body or form or substance; "spiritual beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford

inconsiderable

adj. too small or unimportant to merit attention; "passed his life in an inconsiderable village"; "their duties were inconsiderable"; "had no inconsiderable influence"

small, little

adj. limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"

frail, fragile

adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

thin, sparse

adj. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"

frail, delicate, fragile

adj. easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"

short

adj. low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"

metaphysical

adj. highly abstract and overly theoretical; "metaphysical reasoning"

weak

adj. having little physical or spiritual strength; "a weak link"

shaky, rickety, wobbly, wonky

adj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"

open, open to, assailable, undefendable, undefended

adj. not defended or capable of being defended; "an open city"; "open to attack"

immaterial, incorporeal

adj. without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit"

anemic, anaemic

adj. lacking vigor or energy; "an anemic attempt to hit the baseball"

adynamic, asthenic, debilitated, enervated

adj. lacking strength or vigor

breakaway

adj. having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction"

faint, feeble

adj. lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"

lame, feeble

adj. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

flimsy, jerry-built

adj. of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"

small, little

adj. (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"

namby-pamby, spineless, wishy-washy

adj. weak in willpower, courage or vitality

pale

adj. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"

wan, pallid

adj. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"

puny

adj. inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses"

flimsy, tenuous

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

thin

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

vulnerable

adj. capable of being wounded or hurt; "vulnerable parts of the body"

washy

adj. overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"

unhealthful, unhealthy, insalubrious

adj. detrimental to health

morbid

adj. suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"

noisome, noxious

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

offensive, loathsome

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

immaterial

adj. not consisting of matter; "immaterial apparitions"; "ghosts and other immaterial entities"

solid, substantial, sturdy

adj. of good quality and condition; solidly built; "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings"

abundant

adj. present in great quantity; "an abundant supply of water"

real, substantial

adj. having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare

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