Substantive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUBSTANTIVE in dictionary:

VERB:
• To substantivize.
NOUN:
• in grammar, a noun
• a noun.
• A noun or name; the part of speech which designates something that exists, or some object of thought, either material or immaterial; as, the words man, horse, city, goodness, excellence, are substantives.
• any word or group of words functioning as a noun
• a noun
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to substance
• having a firm basis in reality and so important, meaningful, or considerable
• having a separate and independent existence.
• (of a rank or appointment) not acting or temporary; permanent
• (of an enactment, motion, or resolution) made in due form as such; not amended.
• (of law) defining rights and duties, as opposed to giving the procedural rules by which those rights and duties are enforced.
• (of a dye) not needing a mordant.
• Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be.
• Depending on itself; independent.
• Enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
• Pertaining to, or constituting, the essential part or principles; as, the law substantive.
• having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or considerable
• defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
• being on topic and prompting thought
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• noun; broadly; a word or word group functioning syntactically as a noun

Words related to SUBSTANTIVE

substantival17 substantivally22 substantively21 substantiveness20 substantives17 substantivity21

Words that contain SUBSTANTIVE

substantives17 substantively21 substantiveness20 substantivenesses22

How to use SUBSTANTIVE in a sentence

• But it should at any rate be remembered that this original document, supposing it to have had a substantive existence, most probably contained repeated references to miracles.
• Substance and accident, substantive and adjective, are expressions for subjective processes of thought and hence do not hold of things in themselves.
• Fish, have you any? not, Have you any fish? The substantive preceded the verb in the organization of the language.
• He has freely translated from your lectures on the substantive, which gives you a European reputation.
• It is not a substantive general power to provide for the welfare of the United States, but is a limitation on the grant of power to raise money by taxes, duties, and imposts.
• Greene, Hiley, Wells, Weld, and some others, teach that participles may perform these several offices of a substantive, without dropping the regimen and adjuncts of participles.
• Why is it reasonable to limit the government of the possessive to nouns only, or to words taken substantive? 35.
• At the same time, his philosophy rejected a substantive absolute, or any other spiritual realities or existences apart from the universe given in feeling and consciousness.
• Field officers cast down their golden crowns and crept slowly back to their original units as substantive lieutenants.
• Verb or substantive is often wanting, but you can always catch the thought, and will ever find it clear and suggestive.
• Moreover, a substantive standing by itself is usually the equivalent of too abstract an idea for us to conceive properly without delay.
• Her tone and accent made the substantive sound criminal.
• Our life in its innermost substantive essence is best defined as a conscious force.
• And consequently the last effect of the consecration must needs be signified in this sentence by a substantive verb of the indicative mood and present time.
• The Bishop says that in English the substantive singular is made plural for the most part by adding s.
• Several of the medieval naturalists used it as a substantive.
• There is no occasion to accept it, as there is no objection to employing Algonkin both as substantive and adjective.
• Attributes of God are the Adjectives of One Great Substantive, 574-l.
• PERIODICAL is an adjective, and its use as a substantive is an unwarrantable gain of brevity at the expense of grammar.
• If we assert that evolution is infinite, no substantive goal can be set to it.
• Ours, yours, hers, theirs, are used when the substantive preceding is separated by a verb, as These are our books.
• The plural others is not used but when it is referred to a substantive preceding, as I have sent other horses.
• A Substantive Clause is one which as a whole serves as the Subject or Object of a verb, or stands in some other case relation.
• Next, he might take a substantive and a verb, showing roughly how their inflections arose and were developed, and how they retain forms in Homer which do not occur in later Greek.
• Itthattam is a substantive formed from ittham thus.
• He showed how far he had traveled since the Fourth of January in no way more strikingly, than when he called in question the substantive character of the Missouri Compromise.
• Therefore the Divine Verb reproduces the Divine Substantive by a natural sequence.

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