Substantive Definition

sŭbstən-tĭv
adjective
Existing independently; not dependent upon or subordinate to another.
Webster's New World
Of considerable amount or quantity; substantial.
Webster's New World
Independent in existence or function; not subordinate.
American Heritage
Having a real existence; actual.
Webster's New World
Of, containing, or dealing with the essential elements; essential.
Webster's New World
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noun
Something substantive.
Webster's New World
A noun or any other word or group of words that functions as a noun; nominal.
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Other Word Forms of Substantive

Noun

Singular:
substantive
Plural:
substantives

Origin of Substantive

  • Middle English substantif self-sufficient, independent from Old French substantive from Late Latin substantīvus from Latin substantia substance substance

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French substantif.

    From Wiktionary

Substantive Sentence Examples

  • In other cases the pronunciation can be ascertained only from the context, as in use, unvoiced for the substantive, voiced for the verb.

  • Though, for simplicity and universality of thought, even in science, we must use the abstraction of attributes, and, by the necessity and weakness of language, must signify what are not substances by nouns substantive, we must guard against the over-abstraction of believing that a thing exists as we abstract it.

  • Derivatives of this group are important as substantive cotton dyestuffs.

  • But, as usual, Voltaire's extraordinary literary industry was shown rather in a vast amount of fugitive writings than in substantive works, though for the whole space of his Cirey residence he was engaged in writing, adding to, and altering the Pucelle.

  • Amid much that is uncertain and even legendary about his work in Britain, this is plain, that he fixed on the line of Hadrian's wall as his substantive frontier.

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Words Starting With

SSUSUB

Words Ending With

EVEIVE

Unscrambles

substantive

Words Starting With S and Ending With E

Starts With S & Ends With EStarts With SU & Ends With EStarts With S & Ends With VE

Word Length

11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With S11 Letter Words Ending With E