substantive

No discipline, no forward-looking message, no substantive line of attack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

My focus is not on the substantive merits of the charges, the government’s exercise of its prosecutorial discretion to pursue these charges, or the close-to-an-election timing of the initiation of the prosecution.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

Supporters say it won’t make any substantive changes, but instead make the rules easier to understand by deleting duplicated language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

The NBA has yet to issue a substantive response to the letter.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

We did not discuss substantive issues, so much as history and South African culture.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Verbs and substantives are combined as predicate and object.

From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown

Frequently these substantives refer to parts of the body, and this, in passing, suggests the antiquity of this class of words and their value in comparison.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton

And “epithets that will serve for any substantives, either in this part or the next.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

And my ponies were none the less fat and in good condition though they were fed on literature, had substantives for oats, adjectives for hay, and adverbs for straw.

From My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 by Théophile Gautier

A different Latin suffix -culum, forming substantives from verbs, is represented in the form -cle in several words adopted through French, as miracle, oracle, spectacle. -um, neuter term., as medium.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various