substantive

No discipline, no forward-looking message, no substantive line of attack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 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

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

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026

We did not discuss substantive issues, so much as history and South African culture.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton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

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

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

When he recovered, he could neither write nor pronounce correctly any substantives or personal names either in French or Latin, while adjectives and epithets crowded in his mind.

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