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Substantial   /səbstˈæntʃəl/  /səbstˈænʃəl/   Listen
Substantial

adjective
1.
Fairly large.  Synonym: significant.
2.
Having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or considerable.  Synonym: substantive.
3.
Having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary.  Synonyms: material, real.  "A mere dream, neither substantial nor practical" , "Most ponderous and substantial things"
4.
Providing abundant nourishment.  Synonyms: hearty, satisfying, solid, square.  "Good solid food" , "Ate a substantial breakfast" , "Four square meals a day"
5.
Of good quality and condition; solidly built.  Synonyms: solid, strong.  "Several substantial timber buildings"



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"Substantial" Quotes from Famous Books



... hands; If the dark menial's visit save from this, Have twice the number,—for he 'll sometimes miss. One pair for critics of the nicer sex, Close in the instep's clinging circumflex, Long, narrow, light; the Gallic boot of love, A kind of cross between a boot and glove. Compact, but easy, strong, substantial, square, Let native art compile the medium pair. The third remains, and let your tasteful skill Here show some relics of affection still; Let no stiff cowhide, reeking from the tan, No rough caoutchoue, no deformed brogan, Disgrace the tapering outline of your feet, Though ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... there probably are, many other and even more substantial reasons for discrediting statistics that are commonplaces to experts in crime. But those that have been cited, and which are at once suggested by common sense, fully suffice to show the impossibility of arriving at satisfactory conclusions on the basis of statistical ...
— The Curse of Education • Harold E. Gorst

... thereto, or shall engage in or give aid and comfort to any such existing rebellion or insurrection." By fair construction persons within these sections are not to be punished without regular trials in duly constituted courts, under the forms and all the substantial provisions of law and of the Constitution applicable to their several cases. To this I perceive no objection, especially as such persons would be within the general pardoning power and also the special provision for pardon and ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Lincoln - Section 1 (of 2) of Volume 6: Abraham Lincoln • Compiled by James D. Richardson

... to your lordship an account of the expense of many hours, which, in your service, and to mine own benefit, might have been otherwise employed. My desires have aimed at more substantial marks; but mine eyes failed them, and forced me to spend out their vigour in this bundle of words, which may be unworthy of your lordship's great patience, and, perhaps, ill-suited to ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli

... the Judge besought with animation that there might be something a little more substantial than "angels' food" for supper, which ...
— The Home • Fredrika Bremer


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