A noun or a pronoun that is used in place of a noun

Usage examples of substantive.

For a brief interval following the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court appears to have underestimated the significance of this clause as a substantive restraint on the power of States to fix rates chargeable by an industry deemed appropriately subject to such controls.

The passive voice is formed by joining the participle preterit to the substantive verb, as I am loved.

My guess is that there was no substantive reason to think Tripley had anything to do with either incident, and the family had a lot of influence.

And the substantive Twizzler, with its endless twizzle, is the candy of choice.

There is no occasion to accept it, as there is no objection to employing Algonkin both as substantive and adjective.

Taylor points out, substantive and dialectical and dialogical, not merely instrumental and procedural and monological.

By contrast, calling Florida for Gore while Florida polls were still open had a substantive effect on the outcome.

But, as we have seen, any of these kinds of word, substantive, adjective, or participle, may occur syncategorematically in connection with others to form a composite term.

There are substantive arguments contained in conservative name-calling.

Hence the tendency in these productions, and in medical lectures generally, to overstate the efficacy of favorite methods of cure, and hence the premium offered for showy talkers rather than sagacious observers, for the men of adjectives rather than of nouns substantive in the more ambitious of these institutions.

But librarians failed to grasp the essential and substantive differences between the two formats.

El jefe thought to call Cortez on his mobile phone, but remembered that his hireling refused to discuss substantive matters over what he called a "nonsecure" line.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

It was hard, he said in part, it was, upon his Sam, a little hard that a gentleman--a gentleman, moreover, who had done so much to stimulate local trade with large orders and what not--could not run up to London for five minutes on business without having his private grounds turned upside down by a gang of cattle-ship adjectived San Francisco substantives who behaved as if the whole of the Buenos Ayres phrased place belonged to them.

His first substantive radio message was a single code group which he tapped out using Morse Code.