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A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction.

in, or inclined to, levity; wanting dignity or solemnity; trifling; gay; frivolous; airy; unsubstantial. Seneca can not be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. Shak. Specimens of New England humor laboriously light and lamentably mirthful. Hawthorne.

Of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper; existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army.

Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor. Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death. Addison.

Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument. "That was a slim excuse." Barrow.

Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. Shak.

Having no substance; unsubstantial. [R.] Coleridge.

Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Eccl. i. 2. Here I may well show the vanity of that which is reported in the story of Walsingham. Sir J. Davies.…

Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. For what is your life It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James iv. 14.

Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical. Such vaporous speculations were inevitable. Carlyle.