substant

Something that subsists.

Adjective

  1. Substantial; firm.
    • [The glacier's] substant ice curls freely, molds, and breaks itself like water, — breaks in waves, plastic like honey, crested lightly with a frozen spray; it winds tenderly about the rocky shore, and the granite,...

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin substantis. First attested in 1597.

Forms

more substant most substant

Derived

unsubstant

Noun

  1. Something that subsists.
    • 1597, The substants of bodie and soule have nothinge commune with this spirituall mariage. (quoted in OED)

Forms

substants