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/səbstˈæntʃəl/ /səbstˈænʃəl/ Listen

adjective

Substantial adj.

Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life. "If this atheist would have his chance to be real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar."

Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable. "If happinessbe a substantial good." "The substantial ornaments of virtue."

Corporeal; material; firm. "Most ponderous and substantial things." "The rainbow (appears to be) a large substantial arch."

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

Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder. "Substantial yeomen and burghers."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... He said that this revival of the Mission had been his prayer and hope ever since the Missionaries went away. The Government re-sold the mission-house to Mr Hodson for the sum they had paid the Mission for it. Under Mr Sullivan's care the house was put into complete repair, and a good substantial chapel was built in the town of Goobbe. Mr Hodson preached the opening ...

— Old Daniel • Thomas Hodson

... security; and there can be no security without sincerity. Therefore, hypocrites, of every class, are acting contrary to their own intentions. They are providing misery for themselves, as well as for others: instead of the substantial pleasures of which ...

— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft

... scenery, and trying to interpret it in the light of her own tenacious views of life and the universe. If the marvels of this new world into which she had been thrown had failed to realize her expectations—if she saw in them, and in the sense of life which they express, something less real, less substantial, than do those who laud its grandeur and power to charm—she gave no hint. She was still absorbing, sifting and digesting the welter of impressions. She had been overpowered, smothered by the innovation; and she now found ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... entirely and only through the medium of the intelligence, and are limited by its capacity. For all the wit there is in the world is useless to him who has none. Still this advantage is accompanied by a substantial disadvantage; for the whole of Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering ...

— The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life • Arthur Schopenhauer

... that the so-called prudishness and the avoidance of nasty subjects in the last generation has ever blinded any substantial number of girls or boys to the wickedness of vice or made them ...

— Sex-education - A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its - relation to human life • Maurice Alpheus Bigelow

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