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substitutionary

substitutionary adjective: of or relating to substitution or replacement.

Adjective

substitutionary (comparative more substitutionary, superlative most substitutionary)

  1. Of or relating to substitution or replacement.
    • I did not perceive that his irony, his secret, and his parade of feeling, were all alike theatrical, and substitutionary for real interest and sincerity.1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 209

Forms of substitutionary

comparativemore substitutionary
superlativemost substitutionary

Origin of substitutionary

From substitution + -ary.

Words formed from substitutionary

Phrases with substitutionary

Questions about substitutionary

What does substitutionary mean?
Substitutionary means of or relating to substitution or replacement.
What part of speech is substitutionary?
Substitutionary is an adjective.

Words near substitutionary in the dictionary

  1. substitution of attorney
  2. substitution reaction
  3. substitution reactions
  4. substitutional
  5. substitutionally
  6. substitutionary
  7. substitutionary atonement
  8. substitutionary atonements
  9. substitutions
  10. substitutive
  11. substitutive nomenclature

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