Insubstantial - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 14/03/2025

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Insubstantial.

4 letter answer(s) to insubstantial

AIRY
  1. 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"
  2. having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air; "airy gauze curtains"
  3. not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"
  4. open to or abounding in fresh air; "airy rooms"
THIN
  1. (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry"
  2. lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
  3. lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile"
  4. lacking substance or significance;
  5. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
  6. lose thickness; become thin or thinner
  7. make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution"
  8. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"
  9. of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"
  10. relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous; "air is thin at high altitudes"; "a thin soup"; "skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"; "thin oil"
  11. take off weight
  12. very narrow; "a thin line across the page"
  13. without viscosity; "the blood was flowin

6 letter answer(s) to insubstantial

FLIMSY
  1. a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies
  2. lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"
  3. lacking substance or significance;
  4. not convincing; "unconvincing argument"; "as unconvincing as a forced smile"
FROTHY
  1. emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer"
  2. marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"
MEAGRE
  1. deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"
  2. Thin
TUSSLE
  1. disorderly fighting
  2. fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters; "the drunken men started to scuffle"
  3. make messy or untidy; "the child mussed up my hair"

5 letter answer(s) to insubstantial

LIGHT
  1. (of sleep) easily disturbed; "in a light doze"; "a light sleeper"; "a restless wakeful night"
  2. (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims; "efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings"; "clear laughter like a waterfall"; "clear reds and blues"; "a light lilting voice like a silver bell"
  3. (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average; "light water is ordinary water"
  4. (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window"
  5. (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent; "light blue"; "light colors such as pastels"; "a light-colored powder"
  6. (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency; "light soil"
  7. (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress; "a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable"; "a weak stress on the second syllable"
  8. a condition of s

11 letter answer(s) to insubstantial

LIGHTWEIGHT
  1. a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
  2. a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
  3. an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
  4. having no importance or influence; "a lightweight intellect"
  5. someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
  6. weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use; "a lightweight fabric"; "lightweight wood"

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Insubstantial'

Backing war-torn country losing leader is delicate
Bath's not full enough?
Beacon
Bit of a fight
Bizarrely, lets us fight
Breezy
Bright and breezy
Brood no end? That's fine
Bubbly
Conflict kept us sleepless essentially
Consider losing kilos to get slim
Copy of a document on thin translucent paper
Dangerous having no hospital open
Dangerous to leave hotel, which is spacious
Darkness arising when there's no good light
Delicate
Delicate insect crossing one manuscript
Delicate; dismissive
Delicate; well ventilated
Difficulty that’s not soft or trivial
Dilute
Easily worked land
Easy
Easy trip by air? Not the first
Effervescent
Eminent person came face to face with the monarch - photographer's got it?
Endless journeys by plane bring insight
Ethereal
Excellent line, offhand
Fair and easy
Fair's awkward situation: no parking
Fanciful? Indeed, about Irish
Far from strenuous match
Finally get you, spineless as usual, inside fight
Fine to use one’s imagination, mostly
Flimsy article, short
Flimsy item falling short
Flimsy metal cladding for hotel
Foamy
Foamy; insubstantial
Fracas
Fresh milk etc? Not initially
Fresh, unopened cream?
Frivolous - insubstantial
Frivolous answer to crossword clue
Full of breezes
Gaunt muse with potassium deficiency
Gentle drunk outside Grand Hotel
Given time, American golfer makes a comeback - it's a struggle
Go at it
Gossamer
Green gem
Hairline
Hardly stuffy
Health insurance partly insufficient
I will board a railway without a care
Illuminate; not heavy
Illumination
Illumination from old BBC radio programme
Inadequate
Inadequate? Some agree, but only some
Insouciant
Insubstantial part of growth industry
Insubstantial type of penguin the first to go
Insufficient silver in pool
Insufficient time agreed to remove outsiders
Lacking in substance
Lacking seriousness
Lacking substance; narrow
Lacking volume
Lame
Land not clayey?
Land without a lot of luggage
Lean
Lean, thin
Lean; lacking substance
Lean; narrow
Light
Light and open
Light as a feather
Light, insubstantial
Like a beanpole
Like a dime
Like a feather
Like India paper
Line taken by leaderless crew shows brilliance
Made of light material
Minor difficulty with power cut
Narrow
Nonchalant
Not demanding illumination
Not demanding rest
Not fleshy, object when having bottom pinched
Not heavy
Not heavy; understanding
Not safe to skate on, say
Not stuffy
Not weighing much
Object ultimately going spare
Object when gallons going spare
Of little weight
One piece of writing in career is unconvincing
Open
Open or unopened milk container?
Open to breezes
Open to the breeze
Open-roofed
Pathetic threesome, agreed hosts
Ponder almost getting slim
Poor in quality
Poor maiden before stealing silver
Rickety
Risky losing leader without thinking things through
Rough-and-tumble
Scanty
Scanty, in Salisbury
Scanty, in Scarborough
School lets us row
Scrap odd parts of tours on isle to avoid current
Scuffle
See 16
Set fire to
Settle match?
Short trip by plane taking off first thing
Shoving match
Significantly underweight
Silver lining nothing but miserable
Skimpy
Skinny
Slender
Slicing request
Slim
Small brawl
Smoker's request
Source of illumination
Spacious
Spacious, well-ventilated
Spare item cut
Speculative
Stingy
Stingy - thin
Struggle
Struggle roughly
Subject to a draft
Subject to breezes
Svelte
Theme of this puzzle
Thin - inadequate
Thin female, horribly slimy
Thin on the ground
Thin, overseas
To use one’s brain less than fully is poor
Torch
Torch that’s easy to carry
Traffic controller
Trivial insult ignored by son
Trivial insult son dismissed
Tug-of-war
Underweight
Unsubstantial
Waiflike
Watered down
Weak
Weak, as a plot
Weighing little
Well ventilated
Well-ventilated
Well-ventilated farm building not opening
Well-ventilated; casual
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