Usually means: Essential, significant in content, meaningful.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word substantive:

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

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Substantive: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. SUBSTANTIVE: Accounting Glossary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Dictionary of Management Jargon (No longer online)
  4. substantive: Legal dictionary
  5. Substantive: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. substantive: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. substantive: A Word A Day

(Note: See substantively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
adjective:  (by extension) Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
adjective:  Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
adjective:  (law) Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
adjective:  (chemistry, of a dye) Not needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
adjective:  Depending on itself; independent.
adjective:  (grammar) Of or pertaining to a substantive.
adjective:  (military, of a rank or appointment) Actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment
noun:  Part of a text that carries the meaning, such as words and their ordering.
verb:  (grammar, very rare) To make a word belonging to another part of speech into a substantive (that is, a noun) or use it as a noun.
noun:  (grammar) Clipping of noun substantive or substantive noun; a noun or a group of words (a noun phrase) that act as a noun (in a sentence).

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