substantive

“The elaborate pageantry matters precisely because there is still relatively little substantive progress to showcase,” Singleton said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

It lacks aesthetic appeal, organizational coherence, and the perception of substantive balance.”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

The eruption may well provide substantive, long-term evidence for the carcinogenic level of silica in the ash.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

And afterwards, all sides spoke warmly of having held substantive discussions.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

It was his odd blindness, I think, to all problems of a personal nature which made him able at the end to transmute even Bunny’s highly substantive troubles into spiritual ones.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

There is a tendency to make the plural of all substantives except masculine monosyllables end in -an.

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

Yet we find, even in works of celebrity, whole pages of these general or these particular descriptive sketches, which leave nothing behind but noun substantives propped up by random epithets.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

De is not used in speaking of places, etc., when English uses the preposition "of," where nomata = named might be inserted between two substantives.

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by George Cox

Frequently these substantives refer to parts of the body, and this, in passing, suggests the antiquity of this class of words and their value in comparison.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton

Robert, when eleven years old, showed a deep interest in the study of grammar and language, and ‘excelled as a critic in substantives, verbs, and participles.’

From The Real Robert Burns by J. L. Hughes