substantive

I say that as a professional, a hack columnist at a paper you read for other, more substantive reasons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

It needs eight substantive consultants - from the end of this month it will have two, plus three locum consultants.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

Lazaro and Foreign Minister Tin Maung Swe "held substantive discussions on ways to restore Myanmar's original role and rights within ASEAN", according to a statement from Myanmar's foreign ministry.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Out of the whole saga, there was one substantive change that was made rather quickly.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

By unity Boole denoted the universe of thinkable objects; literal symbols, such as x, y, z, v, u, &c., were used with the elective meaning attaching to common adjectives and substantives.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various

Thus, whilst O. Irish possesses five cases the Brythonic dialects have only one, and they have further lost the neuter gender and the dual number in substantives.

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

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