Substitute is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUBSTITUTE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to put or use in the place of another
• use or add in place of
• act or serve as a substitute
• replace (someone or something) with another
• replace (an atom or group in a molecule, especially a hydrogen atom) with another
• (of a compound) in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by other atoms or groups
• replace (a sports player) with a substitute during a match
• put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
• be a substitute
• act as a substitute
NOUN:
• a person or thing acting or serving in place of another
• a person or thing that becomes the object of love or another emotion which is deprived of its natural outlet
• a sports player nominated as eligible to replace another after a match has begun
• a deputy
• One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else
• a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man.
• To put in the place of another person or thing; to exchange.
• a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
• an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
• someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
ADJECTIVE:
• capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
• serving or used in place of another
• artificial and inferior
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a person or thing that takes the place or function of another

Words related to SUBSTITUTE

substitutable17 substituted14 substitutes13 substituting15 substitutional16 substitutionary20 surrogate10

Words that contain SUBSTITUTE

substituted14 substitutes13 disubstituted17 trisubstituted17

How to use SUBSTITUTE in a sentence

• He was frankly unable to suggest a substitute but was emphatically of opinion that whether there was a substitute or not non-co-operation was a remedy worse than the disease.
• In place of these they substitute nautical names, some of which are significant of the daily bill of fare at dinner for the week.
• Smithson critically, and shuddered at the thought that this person was the best substitute which the season had yet offered her for her ideal knight.
• This substitute is to apply, not to the present Congress and Executive, but to our successors.
• Modern research, though failing to substitute anything more definite, has not confirmed this.
• She had it taken from the crown and replaced by a paste substitute.
• A twelve-inch piece of barrel hoop wound with cambric or muslin, and with a loop at the center, is a good substitute for the commercial hook.
• He believed that it could be something better than an expensive substitute for photography or an accompaniment to poor poetry.
• Indeed, he would like to have been able to take Sandy along as a substantial substitute in case anything went wrong with the plane.
• Substitute your own methods of expression in place of the language of the book.
• If a game is well in hand it is usually safe to put in a substitute pitcher to finish it.
• For objects of sense he would substitute sensations.
• Montagu would apparently wish to substitute for them.
• There are only two forces that aspire to substitute themselves for British rule, or at least to make the continuance of British rule subservient to their own ascendency.
• Brutality itself grew natural to this vision, as a fiercer joy and substitute for the deceit he could no longer practice.
• The Scriptures furnish everything noble and real, and when philosophy aims to supply a substitute for them it always labors in vain.
• You learn to substitute for your personal feeling the common impersonal element felt by the many.
• But I prefer to look at him at a later period, when he became our sole substitute for the printer and when his diligence preserved for us all that remains of a fading literature.
• A runner came in while we were here, carrying a note in a cleft stick, the native substitute for a pocket.
• The one great available substitute for coal as a source of heat and light and power is water power.
• They dropped it as soon as the substitute was no longer necessary.
• As a substitute, the English government established, in 1767, duties on paper, paint, glass and tea.
• They are nearly equal in flavor to the Irish potato, and afford a very good substitute for bread.
• Congress is easily denounced, but no one has found a substitute for it, and it is fairly representative of the country.
• What a blessing, not only for those colonies, but for the world, would the introduction be of this cheap and nutritious substitute for the potato.
• Unable himself to enlist, he borrowed money and sent a substitute to the war, and it was not till long after the war that he was able to repay the loan.
• We substitute, we compromise, we give and take, we add a little here and leave out a little there.

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