| 单词 | substantive |
| 释义 | substantive (once / 2838 pages) adjn When you talk about substantive change, you mean change that really makes a difference. After a substantive discussion, you will have an in-depth understanding of what you are talking about. When something is substantive, there is a lot of there there, be it meaning or volume of things. The word brings a serious tone. While it is often used to talk about problems and their solutions, a big steak dinner could be called substantive as could a very long piece of writing. In any case, you use it when there is a lot of substance involved. WORD FAMILYsubstantive: substantival, substantively, substantives+/substantival: substantivally USAGE EXAMPLESIndeed, with no apparent plans for increasing manufacturing jobs or improving veterans’ health care, Trump shows few signs of delivering on his substantive promises. Slate(Dec 29, 2016) Contrast this with last week’s Security Council resolution, which the Obama Administration refused to veto and which substantively changes diplomatic understandings stretching to 1967. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) What they largely evaded, though, was substantive exploration of the idea of healing. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1adj having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or considerable Syn substantial essential basic and fundamental 2adj being on topic and prompting thought Syn meaty meaningful having a meaning or purpose 3adj defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established substantive law Syn|Ant essential adjective, procedural relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law 4n any word or group of words functioning as a noun Hypo|Hyper noun a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action collective nouna noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things mass nouna noun that does not form plurals count nouna noun that forms plurals generic nouna noun that does not specify either masculine or feminine gender proper name, proper nouna noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized common nouna noun that denotes any or all members of a class word a unit of language that native speakers can identify |
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