Usually means: Of considerable importance, size, or worth.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word substantial:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. substantial: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. substantial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. substantial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. substantial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. substantial: Vocabulary.com
  6. Substantial, substantial: Wordnik
  7. substantial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. substantial: Wiktionary
  9. substantial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. substantial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. substantial: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. substantial: Dictionary.com
  13. substantial: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. substantial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Substantial (rapper), Substantial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Substantial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. substantial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. substantial: Rhymezone
  19. substantial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. substantial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. substantial: Free Dictionary
  22. substantial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. substantial: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. substantial: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. substantial: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. substantial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. substantial: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Substantial: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See substantiality as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having a substance; actually existing.
adjective:  Not imaginary; real; actual; true; veritable.
adjective:  Corporeal; material; firm.
adjective:  Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm.
adjective:  Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy.
adjective:  Large in size, quantity, or value; ample; significant.
adjective:  Most important; essential.
adjective:  Satisfying; having sufficient substance to be nourishing or filling.
noun:  Anything having substance; an essential part.

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    forest green,     burgundy,     charcoal,     maroon,     olive,     rust,     mahogany,     slate gray,     midnight blue,     hunter green



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