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substancial

substancial is the obsolete form of substantial.

Meaning of substantial

Adjective

substantial (comparative more substantial, superlative most substantial)

  1. Having a substance; actually existing.
    • substantial life
  2. Not imaginary; real; actual; true; veritable.
    • to do some substantial good, is the compensation for much incidental imperfection1850s, Cardinal John Henry Newman, The Rise and Progress of Universities
  3. Corporeal; material; firm.
  4. Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm.
    • substantial cloth
    Synonyms:
    sturdy
  5. Addressing the substance of an injury
    • Substantial damages (i.e. damages set at a level that exactly covers the plaintiff's losses; synonym: compensatory damgages)
  6. Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy.
    • a substantial freeholder

See all 10 meanings of substantial

Forms of substancial

comparativemore substancial
superlativemost substancial

Questions about substancial

What is substancial the obsolete form of?
Substancial is the obsolete form of substantial.

Words near substancial in the dictionary

  1. substancehood
  2. substanceless
  3. substancelessness
  4. substanceness
  5. substances
  6. substancial
  7. substancing
  8. substandard
  9. substandardly
  10. substandardness
  11. substant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: substancial (page history and authors); substantial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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