What's the difference between insubstantial and unsubstantial?

Insubstantial


Definition:

  • (a.) Unsubstantial; not real or strong.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Variation in risk in association with sugar and starch intake was also insubstantial, while for fiber, there was a nonuniform reduction in risk at the three uppermost fifths of intake.
  • (2) Alistair Darling's announcement of a pay freeze for top public servants was today described as cynical and insubstantial by the Conservative leader, David Cameron .
  • (3) He also held a permit to work as a security guard, which he did at a courthouse in Port St Lucie, Florida, even though he was interviewed three times by the FBI in 2013 and 2014 following separate reports of extremist behavior and connections to terrorism that were in the end deemed insubstantial.
  • (4) Carbamazepine caused statistically significant, but clinically insubstantial, reductions in serum sodium and calcium, but not in the other electrolytes measured.
  • (5) Carbamazepine was found to cause statistically significant, but clinically insubstantial, decreases in white blood cell indexes.
  • (6) "I think it is slightly cynical in its timing; it is rather insubstantial in its content and it is not part of an overall approach," Cameron said on GMTV.
  • (7) The teachers in this study underestimated the extent to which their students could comprehend independently, often based on insubstantial evidence.
  • (8) This is rare, but has been observed in very similar form in association with this disorder in a not insubstantial proportion of cases.
  • (9) Last week Sheridan's wife Gail, also 46, was cleared of also committing perjury at the 2006 libel trial after the prosecution decided the case against her was too weak and insubstantial.
  • (10) Many doctors believe that the discomfort felt during such procedures is insubstantial.
  • (11) He argues that the hope that AGI is possible rests on a similarly insubstantial metaphor, namely that the mind is "essentially" a computer program.
  • (12) Since less than 1% of the intracellular 23Na has been estimated to be immobilized, fractional immobilization of intracellular 39K is also likely to be insubstantial.
  • (13) The show is about her “trying to be an adult”, she says (she’s 28), and it flits insubstantially from a duff audience participation game called “Which Disney princess are you?”, via a riff about still getting presents from Santa, to a joke about her anxiety that her friends are all getting married.
  • (14) Some user charges may be justified, especially if these revenues result insubstantial improvements in the quality and availability of services.
  • (15) Paget's disease has been ascribed several times to specimens of archeological bone but, in the absence of microscopic examination, the evidence remains insubstantial.
  • (16) Thus, the claim of a causal relationship between oral contraceptive steroids and thromboembolism does not appear to be firmly founded, and the belief that predisposing factors increase the risk to contraceptive users is equally insubstantial.
  • (17) The plastic body felt "insubstantial" and the mono speaker on the back "only fair".
  • (18) The error in pulse oximetry caused by the presence of carboxyhemoglobin is insubstantial, but methemoglobin gives either an understimation or an overestimation at high or low oxygen saturation, respectively, the turning point being near 70% saturation.
  • (19) I love trees, but the case for forest offsets still strikes me as insubstantial and, ultimately, as ungraspable as air.
  • (20) Variation in risk of BPED across levels defined in terms of daily total alcohol intake, and in terms of daily alcohol intake from individual beverages, was mostly insubstantial and not dose-dependent.

Unsubstantial


Definition:

  • (a.) Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A viral aetiology for this group of diseases remains an attractive but unsubstantiated hypothesis.
  • (2) Although delusion remains one of the basic problems in psychopathology, attempts to understand its pathogenesis have been dominated by unsubstantiated speculation.
  • (3) Meanwhile, a leading coal industry lobby group, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, dismissed the report as “unsubstantiated scare tactics and hyperbole” and lashed out at Obama for moving ahead on power plant regulations.
  • (4) "I hope today's report acts as a reminder of the dangers of adopting as fact unsubstantiated conclusions before an investigation of the circumstances is completed."
  • (5) The wag added the line "these allegations are completely unsubstantiated and have no basis in reality," which was duly tweeted out by the account.
  • (6) Lady Warsi, chairman of the Conservative party, rejected their calls, saying the basis for the allegations was unsubstantiated rumour.
  • (7) The former deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, said: “Blaming foreigners and an unsubstantiated European plot for her own government’s shortcomings is more worthy of [Turkish president Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan than Downing Street.” Conservative strategists believe May’s bellicose performance outside No 10 will have played well with voters who are keen to see Britain take an assertive approach to the talks.
  • (8) Among the issues raised by Blatter in the interview: • An unsubstantiated claim that there was a pre-vote agreement in place that Russia would host the 2018 World Cup and the USA would host the 2022 tournament – which was undone when Platini pressed for Qatar following a meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy and the crown prince of Qatar.
  • (9) The routine presentation of epidemiologic data by "race" has been challenged as impeding identification of modifiable risk factors and fostering an unsubstantiated belief in the biologic distinctness of the "races."
  • (10) The response to this criticism is usually a spirited defense of the social worker investigation and data distinguishing false ("fictitious") claims from unsubstantiated cases.
  • (11) A representative sample of 796 sexual abuse reports from New York State in 1985 was studied to explore factors associated with the decision to substantiate or unsubstantiate these reports.
  • (12) The assumptions upon which this formulation is based are largely unsubstantiated.
  • (13) An unsubstantiated suspicion of malpractice without obvious adverse effects should not be revealed to the patient.
  • (14) 2.13pm GMT He calls the idea that we have lost track of terrorist plotters as a result of these disclosures "shrill and unsubstantiated".
  • (15) They use tried and tested hydroelectric technology and past criticisms have turned out to be unsubstantiated.
  • (16) We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our study in the paper, including the fact that the average benefit was relatively small, but would refute Colquhoun's unsubstantiated suggestion that we "are people committed to acupuncture".
  • (17) • Pistorius says he approached the bathroom with a gun in an effort to protect Steenkamp and has accused the prosecution of once again using “unsubstantiated allegations” to argue that he murdered Steenkamp.
  • (18) Based on recent pharmacological and pathophysiological findings, the authors confront still persisting unsubstantiated views with modern ones regarding the duration of action of analgetics, equianalgesic doses, abstention symptoms, development of dependence, tolerance and the use of co-analgetics.
  • (19) What is clear from this clip is what really outrages Trump and Clinton is not the idea of rape itself, but the idea that the Democratic party is criticizing Trump for being misogynistic while Clinton has a history of unsubstantiated rape accusations.
  • (20) Unfortunately, many highly-publicized accounts of speculative and unsubstantiated claims have caused undue concern among the general public.

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