substantive

This was a Hail Mary procedural play in a Hail Mary substantive case.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026

The PCC also criticised the lack of a "substantive" communication from the government about Cleveland Police's long-term funding.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Rosario Forlenza, a professor at Rome's Luiss University, called it a "European generational revolt" rooted in a social and economic crisis "to which politicians cannot give a substantive response".

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Born into a Polish aristocratic Catholic family with ornate palaces and substantive political influence, d’Ornano descended from the Radziwill line of Polish princes to Prussian kings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Still, Pearson had to be more mindful of the concerns of black residents than at the beginning of his career—even if that mindfulness didn't translate into any substantive changes during his tenure.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

And my ponies were none the less fat and in good condition though they were fed on literature, had substantives for oats, adjectives for hay, and adverbs for straw.

From My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 by Théophile Gautier

In most American idioms their origin from substantives is readily recognizable.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton

Manx goes as far as northern Scottish in dropping unstressed final vowels, e.g. chiarn, “lord,” Irish, tighearna; -yn is the favourite plural ending in substantives.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

The Chinese do not decline their substantives, but they indicate the cases distinctly— A. By means of particles.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller

Our vowel terminations amount but to one-fourth of the language; all substantives closing in hard consonants were to have a final vowel, and the consonant was to be omitted after the vowel.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli