substantive

Graham Webster, a research scholar at Stanford University, said China’s new AI governance body was more rhetorical than substantive so far.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

These offices run parallel to the agency’s substantive work, addressing broad management issues and conducting investigations of fraud both in and around the agency.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026

But if Japan were to make substantive changes to how its pension funds invest and repatriate their overseas holdings, the effects would be much more significant and long-lasting.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Pinkerton has written a letter to the Prime Minister saying the response did not "engage" with the "substantive concerns" he had raised.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

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

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Verbs and substantives are combined as predicate and object.

From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown

The terminations of the cases and numbers of adjectives are the same as those of substantives, and are treated in the preceding paragraph.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various

The same occurs in Mexican, and the chief termination of substantives, tli, is almost identical in sound with that in the Maipure.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

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 Suyematsu, Baron Kencho

To all verbs, then, from the AngloÐSaxon, to all based on the uncorrupted infinitival stems of Latin verbs of the first conjugation, and to all substantives, whencesoever sprung, we annex Ïable only.¸

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah