Word Meanings - SUBSTANTIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life. Milton. If this atheist would have his chance to be real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar. Bentley. 2. Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real;

Additional info about word: SUBSTANTIAL

1. Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life. Milton. If this atheist would have his chance to be real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar. Bentley. 2. Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable. If happinessbe a substantial good. Denham. The substantial ornaments of virtue. L'Estrange. 3. Corporeal; material; firm. "Most ponderous and substantial things." Shak. The rainbow a large substantial arch. I. Watts. 4. Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall. 5. Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder. "Substantial yeomen and burghers." Sir W. Scott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUBSTANTIAL)

• Dody
• importance
• tangible
• substantial
• corporal
• physical
• ponderable
• Physical
• Natural
• material
• visible
• corporeal
• Positive
• real
• actual
• absolute
• independent
• unconditional
• unequivocal
• explicit
• fixed
• settled
• definitive
• indisputable
• decisive
• express
• enacted
• assured
• confident
• direct
• dogmatic
• overbearing
• dogmatical
• Solid
• Hard
• firm
• compact
• resistant
• dense
• weighty
• strong
• valid
• just
• sound
• impenetrable
• stable
• cubic
• Sound
• Entire
• unbroken
• whole
• perfect
• unhurt
• well-grounded
• uninjured
• unimpaired
• healthy
• vigorous
• solid
• irrefragable
• irrefutable
• thorough
• wholesome
• correct

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SUBSTANTIAL)

• Spare
• falsify
• corrupt

Related words: (words related to SUBSTANTIAL)

• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• DOGMATIC
  One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• INDISPUTABLE
  Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute. Syn. -- Incontestable; unquestionable; incontrovertible; undeniable; irrefragable; certain; positive; undoubted; sure; infallible. -- In*dis"pu*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*dis"pu*ta*bly,
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• ENACTMENT
  1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as,
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• IMPENETRABLENESS
  The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• ENACTURE
  Enactment; resolution. Shak.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• PERFECT
  Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
• DEFINITIVE
  1. Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express. A strict and definitive truth. Sir T. Browne. Some definitive . . . scheme of reconciliation. Prescott. 2. Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word. 3. Determined; resolved.
• THOROUGHWORT
  See BONESET
• DENSE
  1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• INDIVISIBLE
  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent