substantive

Supporters say it won’t make any substantive changes, but instead make the rules easier to understand by deleting duplicated language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

The call was "frank and substantive", Stubb said, explaining that the war's outcome will "have a direct impact on our and the broader European security".

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Stubb described the discussion between the three as "frank and substantive".

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

The U.N.’s human-rights agency hasn’t provided a substantive update.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

But Bobby approached with dedication the daunting task of learning many of the substantive ones.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Old men are frequently met with who confound substantives, and will call their snuff-box a cane, and their watch a hat.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

In the eighteenth century English translation of Behmen's Works, all the substantives, as was then the frequent custom, are printed with capital letters.

From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Jakob Böhme

He has a perfect hatred of pronouns, and for fear of a possible entanglement between 'hims' and 'hers' and 'its,' he will repeat not merely a substantive, but a whole group of substantives.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen

In fact, there is a very large group of noun substantives which mark, for an Elementary teacher, at least, the seasons of the year.

From Life's Minor Collisions by Frances Lester Warner

In conjunction also with other substantives, it has served as a powerful degree of comparison and denotes a superlative expression of contempt.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman