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)
Related words: (words related to SUBSTANTIAL)
- ASSURER
1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy. - 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 - 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
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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