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substantive

[suhb-stuhn-tiv] / ˈsʌb stən tɪv /
NOUN
nominal
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ADJECTIVE
essential; real
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Homendy said investigators could not yet say anything substantive about the cause of the crash as they were still collecting evidence at the scene.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

As Witkoff and Kushner were negotiating at the Kremlin, Zelensky said he was ready for "a substantive conversation".

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

"But on the substantive stuff, and particularly the stuff that will have any kind of economic implications for us in terms of growth, it's still very, very tricky indeed," he told AFP.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

Rather than addressing the substantive crisis of military readiness, however, Pentagon officials threw a tantrum.

From Salon Sep. 1, 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

It is more like the Greek Ge, which is often suffixed to the nominative substantives.

From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Baron Kencho Suyematsu

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

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

In process of; in the act of; into; to; Ð used with verbal substantives in Ðing which begin with a consonant.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

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




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