substantive

Asking tough, substantive questions to those in power is the job of every journalist, and Dana did hers incredibly well today.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

Despite the controversy, the State Department said discussions at the conference had been "substantive and constructive" and reaffirmed its commitment to combating HIV/Aids in Africa and elsewhere.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

“There is not the sort of substantive safety data for these drugs that FDA would normally require,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Lincicome warns however that past investigations were more substantive.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

It was his odd blindness, I think, to all problems of a personal nature which made him able at the end to transmute even Bunny’s highly substantive troubles into spiritual ones.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

Verbs and substantives are combined as predicate and object.

From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown

Thus, whilst O. Irish possesses five cases the Brythonic dialects have only one, and they have further lost the neuter gender and the dual number in substantives.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Robert, when eleven years old, showed a deep interest in the study of grammar and language, and ‘excelled as a critic in substantives, verbs, and participles.’

From The Real Robert Burns by Hughes, J. L.

In most American idioms their origin from substantives is readily recognizable.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison