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substantive

POS

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

sub=stan=tive

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun substantive has 1 sense

substantive(n = noun.communication) - any word or group of words functioning as a noun;

is a kind of

word

has particulars: noun

Derived form adjective substantival₁

Adjective substantive has 3 senses

substantive(s = adj.all) substantial - having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or considerable; "substantial equivalents"
substantive(a = adj.all) essential - defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established; "substantive law"

Antonym: adjective

substantive(s = adj.all) meaty - being on topic and prompting thought; "a meaty discussion"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

substantive, a. [L. substantivus: cf. F. substantif.].

Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be. [1913 Webster]
Depending on itself; independent. [1913 Webster]
"He considered how sufficient and substantive this land was to maintain itself without any aid of the foreigner." [1913 Webster]
Enduring; solid; firm; substantial. [1913 Webster]
"Strength and magnitude are qualities which impress the imagination in a powerful and substantive manner." [1913 Webster]
Pertaining to, or constituting, the essential part or principles; as, the law substantive. [1913 Webster]

Noun substantive (Gram.), 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.

substantive, n. [Cf. F. substantif.].

A noun or name; the part of speech which designates something that exists, or some object of thought, either material or immaterial; as, the words man, horse, city, goodness, excellence, are substantives. [1913 Webster]

substantive, v. t.

To substantivize. Cudworth. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

substantive, adj. & n.
--adj. also 1 having separate and independent existence.
2 Law relating to rights and duties.
3 (of an enactment, motion, resolution, etc.) made in due form as such; not amended.
4 Gram. expressing existence.
5 (of a dye) not needing a mordant.
6 Mil. (of a rank etc.) permanent, not acting or temporary.
7 archaic denoting a substance.
--n. Gram. = NOUN.

Idiom

the substantive verb the verb 'to be'.

Derivative

substantival adj. substantively adv. esp. Gram.

Etymology

ME f. OF substantif -ive, or LL substantivus (as SUBSTANCE)

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THESAURUS

substantive

ab ovo, abstract noun, adherent noun, adjectival, adverbial, appreciable, attributive, basal, basic, bedrock, central, collective noun, common noun, concrete, conjunctive, constituent, constitutive, copulative, correct, elemental, elementary, essential, focal, formal, functional, fundamental, gerund, glossematic, grammatic, gut, hypostasis, indispensable, intransitive, life-and-death, life-or-death, linking, material, nominal, noun, noun phrase, of the essence, of vital importance, original, palpable, participial, ponderable, postpositional, prepositional, primal, primary, primitive, pronominal, pronoun, proper noun, quotation noun, radical, real, sensible, solid, structural, substantial, syntactic, tagmemic, tangible, transitive, underlying, verbal, vital

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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.