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What is the adjective for substantive?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs substantive, substantivize and substantivise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

substantive
  1. Of the essence or essential element of a thing; as, "substantive information".
  2. Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
  3. (law) Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right; as, "substantive law".
  4. (chemistry) Of a dye that does not need the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
  5. Depending on itself; independent.
  6. (grammar) Used like a noun substantive.
  7. (military) (describing a rank or appointment) actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment.
  8. Synonyms:
      9. considerable, substantial, significant, sizeable, sizable, handsome, large, tidy, abundant, respectable, major, good, big, goodly, healthy, plentiful, largish, biggish, decent, ample, hefty, extensive, great, generous, voluminous, appreciable, massive, serious, huge, plenteous, vast, profuse, astronomical, grand, whopping, monumental, solid, lavish, enormous, prodigious, bountiful, hulking, outsize, superabundant, excessive, oversized, immeasurable, reasonable, astronomic, marked … more
  9. Examples:
      10. “The union is also very supportive of efforts to provide a substantive amount of severance pay to separated federal employees.”
      “The substantive aspect of the economy, on which we had wished to focus, is disdainfully relegated to oblivion.”
      “How sufficient and substantive this land was to maintain itself without any aid at all of the foreigner.”
substantival
  1. (grammar) Of or pertaining to a substantive.
  2. Of or relating to physical substance; material.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. nominal, substantive
  4. Examples:
      5. “His substantival analysis revealed the prominence of nouns in the text, providing valuable insights into the syntactic structure.”
      “It is clear that we must proceed with great care if we are to employ this substantival terminology.”
      “Those which have a single element, the substantival or 'ground-word,' with its locative suffix.”
substantived
  1. simple past tense and past participle of substantive
  2. Synonyms:
      3. substantivised, converted
substantiving
  1. present participle of substantive
  2. Synonyms:
      3. substantivising, converting
substantivized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of substantivize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. nounized, nominalized, verbified
substantivizing
  1. present participle of substantivize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. nounizing, nominalizing, verbifying
substantivised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of substantivise
  2. Synonyms:
      3. converted, substantived
substantivising
  1. present participle of substantivise
  2. Synonyms:
      3. converting, substantiving
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