substantial

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective fairly large
adjective having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or considerable
adjective having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; ; ; - Shakespeare

From Middle English substancial, substantiall, from Old French substanciel, substantiel and its etymon Latin substantiālis.

"Old fellow, this is a substantial woman. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. — A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, Charles Dickens
Many of the deck fittings seemed disproportionately substantial. — The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers

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