"unsubstantial" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From un- + substantial.",
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      "form": "more unsubstantial",
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    },
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      "form": "most unsubstantial",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1749, [Tobias George Smollett], The Regicide: Or, James the First, of Scotland. A Tragedy. […], London: […] [F]or the benefit of the author, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv, page 37:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 89, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "They shook hands upon it, and Sydney turned away. Within a minute afterward he was, to all outward appearance, as unsubstantial as ever.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 8:",
          "text": "Psychoanalysis, the modern science of reading dreams, has taught us to take heed of these unsubstantial images.",
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        }
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        "Insubstantial."
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        "(archaic) Insubstantial."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "insubstantial"
        }
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  "word": "unsubstantial"
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  "etymology_text": "From un- + substantial.",
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      "form": "more unsubstantial",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most unsubstantial",
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        "superlative"
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1749, [Tobias George Smollett], The Regicide: Or, James the First, of Scotland. A Tragedy. […], London: […] [F]or the benefit of the author, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv, page 37:",
          "text": "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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        },
        {
          "ref": "1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 89, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 8:",
          "text": "Psychoanalysis, the modern science of reading dreams, has taught us to take heed of these unsubstantial images.",
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        "Insubstantial."
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        "(archaic) Insubstantial."
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        {
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  "word": "unsubstantial"
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