adjective
- Fairly large.
- usage: "won by a substantial margin"
- synonyms: significant
- Having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or considerable.
- usage: "substantial equivalents"
- synonyms: substantive
- Having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary."the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things- Shakespeare
- Providing abundant nourishment.
- usage: "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"; "four square meals a day"
- synonyms: hearty, satisfying, solid, square
- Of good quality and condition; solidly built.
- usage: "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings"
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