substantial

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: sub=stan=tial

CIDE DICTIONARY

substantial, a. [F. substantiel, L. substantialis.].

•  Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

  "If this atheist would have his chance to be real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar."  [1913 Webster]
•  Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable.  [1913 Webster]

  "If happinessbe a substantial good."  [1913 Webster]

  "The substantial ornaments of virtue."  [1913 Webster]
•  Corporeal; material; firm.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

  "The rainbow [appears to be] a large substantial arch."  [1913 Webster]
•  Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall.  [1913 Webster]
•  Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder.  Sir W. Scott.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

substantial, adj.
1 a of real importance or value (made a substantial contribution). b of large size or amount (awarded substantial damages).
2 of solid material or structure; stout (a man of substantial build; a substantial house).
3 commercially successful; wealthy.
4 essential; true in large part (substantial truth).
5 having substance; real.

Derivative

substantiality n. substantially adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF substantiel or LL substantialis (as SUBSTANCE)

THESAURUS

substantial

ab ovo, able to pay, absolute, abundant, actual, adequate, affluent, allegorical, ample, appreciable, ascendant, associational, authentic, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, balanced, barely sufficient, basal, basic, big, big-league, big-name, big-time, bigwig, bigwigged, binding, bodily, bumper, calculable, charismatic, charming, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, clothed with authority, cogent, comfortable, commanding, commensurate, compact, compacted, competent, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested, connotational, connotative, consequential, considerable, consistent, consolidated, constituent, constitutive, controlling, cool, corporal, corporeal, corresponding, crammed, crammed full, crowded, de facto, decent, definable, denotational, denotative, dense, dependable, dominant, double-barreled, due, duly constituted, durable, earthly, earthshaking, easy, effective, effectual, efficacious, elemental, elementary, eminent, empowered, enchanting, enough, equal to, essential, estimable, ex officio, expressive, extended, extensional, factual, faithful, faithworthy, fast, fiducial, figurative, firm, firm as Gibraltar, fit, fleshly, for real, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, fundamental, generous, genuine, gluey, good, good enough, good for, goodly, governing, grand, great, gross, gut, hard, healthy, heavy, heavyweight, hegemonic, hegemonistic, high-powered, historical, honest-to-God, huge, hylic, impenetrable, imperative, impermeable, imperturbable, important, impressive, in equilibrium, indicative, influential, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, invincible, jam-packed, jammed, just, key, landed, large, large-scale, lawful, leading, legal, legitimate, logical, magnetic, major, man-sized, massive, material, materiate, meaning, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical, mighty, minimal, minimum, momentous, monocratic, name, nonporous, nonspiritual, numberless, numerous, objective, of the essence, official, original, packed, palpable, personable, persuasive, phenomenal, physical, pithy, plenty, plenty good enough, pointed, ponderable, positive, potent, powerful, predictable, preeminent, pregnant, prestigious, primal, primary, primitive, principal, profitable, prominent, propertied, proportionate, prosperous, puissant, radical, ranking, readable, real, referential, reliable, reputable, respectable, rich, ruling, satisfactory, secular, secure, self-consistent, self-important, senior, sensible, sententious, serious, serried, significant, significative, sizable, sizeable, snug, solid, solvent, somatic, sound, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, stout, strong, sturdy, suasive, substantive, successful, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing, suggestive, suitable, superior, supreme, sure, surefire, symbolic, tall, tangible, telling, temporal, thick, thick-growing, thickset, tidy, totalitarian, transferred, true, trustworthy, trusty, undeniable, underlying, unfailing, unflappable, unflinching, unindebted, unshakable, unspiritual, unwavering, up to, valid, vast, veritable, viscid, viscose, viscous, wealthy, weighty, well, well-balanced, well-built, well-established, well-fixed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do, winning, without nerves, world-shaking, worldly, worthwhile

ROGET THESAURUS

substantial

Existence

N existence, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence, reality, actuality, positiveness, fact, matter of fact, sober reality, truth, actual existence, presence, coexistence, stubborn fact, hard fact, not a dream, no joke, center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital principle, ontology, existing, existent, under the sun, in existence, extant, afloat, afoot, on foot, current, prevalent, undestroyed, real, actual, positive, absolute, true, substantial, substantive, self-existing, self-existent, essential, well-founded, well-grounded, unideal, unimagined, not potential, authentic, actually, in fact, in point of fact, in reality, indeed, de facto, ipso facto, ens rationis, ergo sum cogito, thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?.

Substantiality

N substantiality, hypostasis, person, being, thing, object, article, item, something, a being, an existence, creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum, matter, corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part, world, plenum, substantive, substantial, hypostatic, personal, bodily, tangible, corporeal, substantially, bodily, essentially.

Materiality

N materiality, materialness, corporeity, corporality, substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum, physical condition, matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum, frame, object, article, thing, something, still life, stocks and stones, materials, physics, somatology, somatics, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, physicism, physical science, philosophie positive, materialism, materialist, physicist, somatism, somatist, material, bodily, corporeal, corporal, physical, somatic, somatoscopic, sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial, objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.

Density

N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.

Truth

N truth, fact, reality, plain fact, plain matter of fact, nature, truth, verity, gospel, gospel truth, God's honest truth, orthodoxy, authenticity, veracity, correctness, correctitude, accuracy, exactitude, exactness, preciseness, precision, delicacy, rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality, clockwork precision, conformity to rule, nicety, orthology, ipsissima verba, realism, plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth, nuda veritas, the very thing, not an illusion, real Simon Pure, unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth, the truth the whole truth and nothing but the trut, just the thing, real, actual, veritable, true, right, correct, certain, substantially true, categorically true, definitively true, true to the letter, true as gospel, unimpeachable, veracious, unreconfuted, unconfuted, unideal, unimagined, realistic, exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so, strict, severe, close, literal, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific, faithful, constant, unerring, curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine, clean-cut, clear-cut, verified, empirically true, experimentally verified, substantiated, proven (demonstrated), rigorously true, unquestionably true, true by definition, genuine, authentic, legitimate, orthodox, official, ex officio, pure, natural, sound, sterling, unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, unalloyed, uncolored, in its true colors, pukka, well-grounded, well founded, solid, substantial, tangible, valid, undistorted, undisguised, unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic, unflattering, truly, verily, indeed, really, in reality, with truth, certainly, actually, in effect, exactly, ad amussim, verbatim, verbatim et literatim, word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis, ad unguem, to an inch, to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T, au pied de la lettre, neither more nor less, in every respect, in all respects, sous tous les rapports, at any rate, at all events, strictly speaking, the truth is, the fact is, rem acu tetigisti, en suivant la verite, ex facto jus oritur, la verita e figlia del empo, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, crazy people and children tell the truth, nihil est veritatis luce dulcius, veritas nunquam perit, veritatem dies aperit, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, just the facts, ma'am, just the facts.