Word Meanings - SUBSTANTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be. 2. Depending on itself; independent. He considered how sufficient and substantive this land was to maintain itself without any aid of the foreigner. Bacon.

Additional info about word: SUBSTANTIVE

1. Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be. 2. Depending on itself; independent. He considered how sufficient and substantive this land was to maintain itself without any aid of the foreigner. Bacon. 3. Enduring; solid; firm; substantial. Strength and magnitude are qualities which impress the imagination in a powerful and substantive manner. Hazlitt. 4. Pertaining to, or constituting, the essential part or principles; as, the law substantive. Noun substantive , a noun which designates an object, material or immaterial; a substantive. -- Substantive color, one which communicates its color without the aid of a mordant or base; -- opposed to adjective color.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUBSTANTIVE)

• Tangible
• Palpable
• tactile
• substantial
• real
• substantive
• perceptible
• corporeal
• material
• comprehensible

Related words: (words related to SUBSTANTIVE)

• CORPOREALITY
  The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.
• PALPABLE
  1. Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form. Shak. Darkness must overshadow all his bounds, Palpable darkness. Milton. 2. Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross;
• SUBSTANTIVENESS
  The quality or state of being substantive.
• COMPREHENSIBLENESS
  The quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility.
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• SUBSTANTIALS
  Essential parts. Ayliffe.
• MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.
• CORPOREALNESS
  Corporeality; corporeity.
• CORPOREALIST
  One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist. Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley.
• SUBSTANTIALITY
  The quality or state of being substantial; corporiety; materiality. The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality. Glanvill.
• SUBSTANTIVELY
  As a substantive, name, or noun; as, an adjective may be used substantively. (more info) 1. In a substantive manner; in substance; essentially.
• CORPOREALLY
  In the body; in a bodily form or manner.
• MATERIALISM
  1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. Buckminster. 2. The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to
• MATERIALIZATION
  The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.
• PERCEPTIBLE
  Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable. With a perceptible blast of the air. Bacon. -- Per*cep"ti*ble*ness, n. -- Per*cep"ti*bly, adv.
• MATERIALIST
  1. One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter. 2. One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the
• MATERIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity. 2. Importance; as, the materiality of facts.
• COMPREHENSIBLE
  1. Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised. Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. Bacon. 2. Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind.
• 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;
• SUBSTANTIALIZE
  To make substantial.
• INSUBSTANTIAL
  Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." Shak.
• SUPERSUBSTANTIAL
  More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• UNTANGIBLE
  Intangible.
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
• OMNICORPOREAL
  Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance. Cudworth.
• INSUBSTANTIALITY
  Unsubstantiality; unreality.
• CONSUBSTANTIALLY
  In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.
• UNSUBSTANTIALIZE
  To make unsubstantial.
• DEMATERIALIZE
  To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.
• INTANGIBLE
  Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible. Bp. Wilkins. A corporation is an artificial, invisible, intangible being. Marshall. -- In*tan"gi*ble*ness, n. -- In*tan"gi*bly, adv.
• CONSUBSTANTIALISM
  The doctrine of consubstantiation.
• IMMATERIALLY
  1. In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance. 2. In an unimportant manner or degree.