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: having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned substantive discussions among world leaders2
: considerable in amount or numbers : substantial made substantive progress3
a : real rather than apparent : firm need substantive evidence to prove her guilt b : belonging to the substance of a thing : essential c : expressing existence the substantive verb is the verb to be4
a : having the nature or function of a noun b : relating to or having the character of a noun or pronominal term in logic5
: creating and defining rights and duties compare procedural6
: requiring or involving no mordant a substantive dyeing process7
: being a totally independent entity
: nounbroadly : a word or word group functioning syntactically as a noun
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