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Unfounded vs Insubstantive - What's the difference?

unfounded | insubstantive |

As adjectives the difference between unfounded and insubstantive

is that unfounded is having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts while insubstantive is (nonstandard) not substantive (in any sense).

unfounded

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts.
  • Not having been founded or instituted.
  • * 1980 , Helen Louise Gardner, ?John Carey, English Renaissance studies (page 268)
    • Even the great world as yet undiscovered, the cities as yet unfounded , and the history as yet unwritten, are lost: fallen from the beginning.

    Synonyms

    * (not based on solid reasons or facts) baseless, groundless, ungrounded

    insubstantive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (nonstandard) Not substantive (in any sense)
  • (nonstandard) Unable to be substantiated; unfounded