Definition of Substantial

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Substantial

Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.

Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable.

Corporeal; material; firm.

Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall.

Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder.

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Substantial Quotations

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
Ralph Marston

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
Jesse Jackson

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
Charlie Sheen

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
Tacitus

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
Giacomo Casanova

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.
Ben Affleck

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
William Howard Taft

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.
Timothy Geithner

The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.
Timothy Geithner

Substantial Translations

substantial in German is reichlich, nahrhaft, wesentliche
substantial in Spanish is substancial
substantial in Swedish is verklig, bastant

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