substantivesub‧stan‧tive1 /səbˈstæntɪv, ˈsʌbstəntɪv/ ●○○ adjective substantive1Origin:
1400-1500 Old French substantif, from Late Latin substantivus, from Latin substantia; ➔ SUBSTANCE - Reporters are often reluctant to examine substantive political issues.
- The new regulations are both symbolic and substantive.
- And when he grew up, his tastes were the same-the only substantive difference being that his adventurers were now daring adults.
- Businesses are held accountable in a substantive way for what they do with resources.
- Candidates also are resorting to personal attacks to get attention because their positions on most substantive issues are remarkably similar.
- If we look to laws external to the family we can begin to develop a body of substantive analyses guided by theory.
- One rationale emphasises the connection between procedural due process and the substantive justice of the final outcome.
- The conventions have become nothing but cheerleading rallies for the presidential campaign ahead, their substantive political role all but eliminated.
- Yet a shift from Gingrich to Lott would be unlikely to have much substantive difference.
► substantive matters/issues The State Department reported that substantive discussions had taken place with Beijing. NOUN► issue· As at Dalat in April, the Fontainebleau conference failed entirely on substantive issues.· Some view unconstrained election spending as positive, exposing voters to more debate about substantive issues.· Candidates also are resorting to personal attacks to get attention because their positions on most substantive issues are remarkably similar.· Reporters are often reluctant to examine substantive issues.· I was not prepared to agree that Britain could be outvoted on any substantive issue of foreign policy.· But, as Robert Frank has convincingly argued, there was also a substantive issue.· Disenfranchisement in the first sense relates to the virtual exclusion of certain substantive issues from the ordinary political agenda.
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