Substantial
[səb'stænʃ(ə)l] or [səb'stænʃl]
Definition
(adj.) having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; 'the substantial world'; 'a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical'; 'most ponderous and substantial things'- Shakespeare .
(adj.) having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or considerable; 'substantial equivalents' .
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Definition
(a.) Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.
(a.) Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable.
(a.) Corporeal; material; firm.
(a.) Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall.
(a.) Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Real, actual, existent, subsistent, actually existing, having substance.[2]. True, positive, not imaginary.[3]. Strong, stout, solid, firm, stable, sound, massive.[4]. Responsible (pecuniarily), moderately wealthy.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Existing, real, solid, true, corporeal, material, strong, stout, massive,bulky, tangible
ANT:Imaginary, unreal, insubstantial, fictitious, supposititious, incorporeal,chimerical, visionary, immaterial, weak, frail, airy, disembodied, spiritual,ghostly
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Definition
adj. belonging to or having substance: actually existing: real: solid: having substance or strength: lasting likely to be permanent: strong stout bulky: corporeal material: having property or estate: considerable pretty wealthy: conforming to what is essential: involving the essential rights or merits of.—v.t. Substan′tialīse to give reality to.—ns. Substan′tialism the theory that there is a real existence or substratum underlying the phenomena of consciousness; Substantial′ity.—adv. Substan′tially.—n. Substan′tialness.—n.pl. Substan′tials essential parts.—v.t. Substan′tiāte to make substantial: to prove or confirm.—n. Substantiā′tion.—adjs. Substantī′val; Sub′stantive expressing existence: real: of real independent importance.—n. (gram.) the part of speech denoting something that exists: a noun.—adv. Sub′stantively.—n. Sub′stantiveness.—v.t. Sub′stantivise.
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Examples
- The very beautiful and substantial side-wheel steamship Quaker City has been chartered for the occasion, and will leave New York June 8th. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But permit me to say, my dear Doctor, that this objection is rather formal than substantial. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was only one substantial dish of meat (fit for the plain condition of a husbandman,) in a dish of about four-and-twenty feet diameter. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Brush and Edward Weston laid the deep foundation of modern arc lighting in America, securing as well substantial recognition abroad. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Lily had not been long in this pallid world without discovering that Mrs. Hatch was its most substantial figure. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But instead of diminishing their claims to approbation and reward, it places those claims on a more substantial foundation than that of abstract original ideas. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It has been fitted up with every attention to substantial comfort; perhaps to a little elegance besides; but of that you shall judge for yourselves. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The kitchen did look more substantial, because of the red-tiled floor and the stove, but it was cold and horrid. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was to be the substantial realization of the peace. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Hence, after supplying an all-night customer whose lamps were on one side of the circuits, the company might be found to owe him some thing substantial in the morning. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The bonfire was by this time beginning to sink low, for the fuel had not been of that substantial sort which can support a blaze long. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She felt the frivolity of pleasure and longed for more substantial benefits. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The outer door would not open to our knock, and nothing more substantial than a torrent of bad language came from behind it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Both in its fresh state and when salted and dried, it is a substantial and wholesome article of food. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Surely it is better for you to take the substantial sum which I offer than to ruin this woman's career, which can profit you in no way? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- If May's parents had entertained the Carfrys in Fifth Avenue they would have offered them something more substantial than a parson and a schoolmaster. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The angels that I know are creatures of unstable fancy--they will not fit in niches of substantial stone. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This birthplace of Edison remains the plain, substantial little brick house it was originally: one-storied, with rooms finished on the attic floor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Except me: I am substantial enough--touch me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- When we consider their sensible differences, we attribute to each of them a substantial and essential difference. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- We sell our victuals to the Islands for rum and sugar; the substantial necessaries of life for superfluities. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Good bottle of port, that--sound, substantial, old wine. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was a period of substantial change. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She and her father kept up an indifferent conversation until Higgins, scarcely aware whether he ate or not, had made a very substantial meal. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Instead of getting a soft fence against the cold, shadowy, unapplausive audience of his life, had he only given it a more substantial presence? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Beaufort's fortune was substantial enough to stand the strain; and yet the disquieting rumours persisted, not only in Fifth Avenue but in Wall Street. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- In my case a substantial favour accompanied the honour. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Care should be constantly exercised to provide substantial foods of high fuel value. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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