Lexic.us

Definition of Substantial

1. Adjective. Fairly large. "Won by a substantial margin"

2. Adjective. Having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or considerable. "Substantial equivalents"

3. Adjective. Having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary. "Most ponderous and substantial things"

4. Adjective. Providing abundant nourishment. "Four square meals a day"

5. Adjective. Of good quality and condition; solidly built. "Several substantial timber buildings"

Definition of Substantial

1. a. Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.

Definition of Substantial

1. Adjective. Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life. ¹

2. Adjective. Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable. ¹

3. Adjective. Corporeal; material; firm. ¹

4. Adjective. Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall. ¹

5. Adjective. possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder. ¹

6. Adjective. Large in size, quantity, or value; as, a substantial amount of money; vast ¹

7. Adjective. Most important; essential. ¹

8. Adjective. Ample or full. ¹

9. Adjective. Significantly great. ¹

10. Noun. Anything having substance; an essential part. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Substantial

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Substantial

substages substance substance abuse substance abuser substanceless substances substandard substandardly substandardness substant

substantia alba substantia grisea substantia nigra substantia nigras substantiae nigrae substantial (current term) substantialism substantialisms substantialities substantiality

substantialization substantializations substantialize substantialized substantializes substantializing substantially substantialness substantials substantiate

Literary usage of Substantial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"They are called substantial principles because combined they result in a being; ... Moreover, the vital principle is the only substantial form of the ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"Congress might, also, while declining to ascertain for itself whether the bridge, as authorized, was likely to prove a substantial and material obstruction ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"Such a lease, as applied to tin's situation, is in every substantial way pro tan- to a purchase." This view of the character of these Instruments and their ..."

4. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1888)
"True. as substantial as a bed are shadowy objects wh Should you like us to employ these ... substantial ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"Rarely does a house strike one as being specially marked or better looking than its neighbors ; more substantial, certainly, some of them are, and yet there ..."

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