consubstantial | (adjective) regarded as the same in substance or essence (as of the three persons of the Trinity) | - |
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consubstantiate | (verb) become united in substance | - |
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(verb) unite in one common substance | - |
consubstantiation | (noun) the doctrine of the High Anglican Church that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists with the substance of the consecrated bread and wine | - |
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insubstantial | (adjective) lacking material form or substance; unreal | Synonyms: unreal, unsubstantial |
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(adjective) lacking in nutritive value | - |
(adjective) lacking solidity or strength | Synonyms: flimsy |
insubstantiality | (noun) lacking substance or reality | - |
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(noun) lack of solid substance and strength | - |
insubstantially | (adverb) not substantially; lacking substantial expression or fullness | Synonyms: impalpably |
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oversubscribed | (adjective) sold in excess of available supply especially season tickets | - |
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subscribe | (verb) mark with one's signature; write one's name (on) | Synonyms: sign |
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(verb) adopt as a belief | Synonyms: support |
(verb) receive or obtain regularly | Synonyms: subscribe to, take |
(verb) offer to buy, as of stocks and shares | - |
(verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: pledge |
subscribed | (adjective) (of a contract or will or other document) having a signature written at the end | - |
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subscriber | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: contributor |
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(noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: reader |
(noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, indorser, ratifier |
subscript | (adjective) written or printed below and to one side of another character | Synonyms: inferior |
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(noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character | Synonyms: inferior |
subscription | (noun) a pledged contribution | - |
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(noun) the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document) | - |
(noun) agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name | - |
(noun) a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time | - |
subsection | (noun) a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided | Synonyms: subdivision |
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subsequence | (noun) following in time | Synonyms: posteriority, subsequentness |
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(noun) something that follows something else | Synonyms: sequel |
subsequent | (adjective) following in time or order | - |
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subsequently | (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: after, afterward, afterwards, later, later on |
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subsequentness | (noun) following in time | Synonyms: posteriority, subsequence |
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subserve | (verb) be helpful or useful | - |
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subservience | (noun) abject or cringing submissiveness | Synonyms: obsequiousness, servility |
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(noun) the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan | - |
(noun) in a subservient state | Synonyms: subservientness |
subservient | (adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid | Synonyms: implemental, instrumental |
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(adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: slavish, submissive |
(adjective) compliant and obedient to authority | - |
subserviently | (adverb) in an obsequious manner | Synonyms: obsequiously, servilely |
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subservientness | (noun) in a subservient state | Synonyms: subservience |
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subset | (noun) a set whose members are members of another set; a set contained within another set | - |
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subshrub | (noun) low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base | Synonyms: suffrutex |
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subside | (verb) wear off or die down | Synonyms: lessen |
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(verb) sink down or precipitate | Synonyms: settle |
(verb) sink to a lower level or form a depression | - |
(verb) descend into or as if into some soft substance or place | Synonyms: sink |
subsidence | (noun) a gradual sinking to a lower level | Synonyms: settling, subsiding |
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(noun) the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it | Synonyms: cave in |
(noun) an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease) | Synonyms: remission, remittal |
subsidiarity | (noun) secondary importance | Synonyms: subordinateness |
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subsidiary | (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: auxiliary, supplemental, supplementary |
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(noun) a company that is completely controlled by another company | Synonyms: subsidiary company |
(noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | Synonyms: foot soldier, subordinate, underling |
subsiding | (noun) a gradual sinking to a lower level | Synonyms: settling, subsidence |
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subsidisation | (noun) the act of providing a subsidy | Synonyms: grant, subsidization |
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(noun) money (or other benefits) obtained as a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidization |
subsidise | (verb) support through subsidies | Synonyms: subsidize |
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(verb) secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy, as of nations or military forces | Synonyms: subsidize |
subsidised | (adjective) having partial financial support from public funds | Synonyms: subsidized |
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subsidiser | (noun) someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidizer |
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subsidization | (noun) the act of providing a subsidy | Synonyms: grant, subsidisation |
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(noun) money (or other benefits) obtained as a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidisation |
subsidize | (verb) support through subsidies | Synonyms: subsidise |
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(verb) secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy, as of nations or military forces | Synonyms: subsidise |
subsidized | (adjective) having partial financial support from public funds | Synonyms: subsidised |
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subsidizer | (noun) someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidiser |
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subsidy | (noun) a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public | - |
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subsist | (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, live, survive |
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subsistence | (noun) minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting | - |
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(noun) the state of existing in reality; having substance | - |
(noun) a means of surviving | - |
subsister | (noun) one who lives through affliction | Synonyms: survivor |
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subsoil | (noun) the layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock | Synonyms: undersoil |
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subsonic | (adjective) (of speed) less than that of sound in a designated medium | - |
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subspace | (noun) a space that is contained within another space | - |
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subspecies | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species | Synonyms: race |
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substance | (noun) the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | - |
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(noun) a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties | - |
(noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, consistency |
(noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: meaning |
(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, sum |
(noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: content, message, subject matter |
(noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: means |
(noun) material of a particular kind or constitution | - |
substandard | (adjective) falling short of some prescribed norm | Synonyms: deficient, inferior |
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substantial | (adjective) having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary | Synonyms: material, real |
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(adjective) of considerable importance, size, or worth | Synonyms: significant |
(adjective) of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something | Synonyms: substantive |
(adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy |
(adjective) of good quality and condition; solidly built | Synonyms: solid, strong |
(adjective) providing abundant nourishment | Synonyms: hearty, satisfying, solid, square |
substantiality | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: solidness, substantialness |
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substantially | (adverb) to a great extent or degree | Synonyms: considerably, well |
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(adverb) in a strong substantial way | - |
substantialness | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: solidness, substantiality |
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substantiate | (verb) solidify, firm, or strengthen | - |
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(verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, support, sustain |
(verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realise, realize |
(verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, incarnate |
substantiating | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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substantiation | (noun) the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something | Synonyms: proof, validation |
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(noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, verification |
substantiative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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substantival | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature or function of a substantive (i.e. a noun or noun equivalent) | - |
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substantive | (adjective) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established | Synonyms: essential |
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(adjective) of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something | Synonyms: substantial |
(adjective) being on topic and prompting thought | Synonyms: meaty |
(noun) any word or group of words functioning as a noun | - |
substation | (noun) a subsidiary station where electricity is transformed for distribution by a low-voltage network | - |
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substitutability | (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: commutability, replaceability |
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substitutable | (adjective) capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent | Synonyms: commutable |
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(adjective) (of words) interchangeable in a given context without changing the import of the expression | - |
substitute | (adjective) artificial and inferior | Synonyms: ersatz |
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(adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, alternative |
(adjective) capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team | Synonyms: utility |
(noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another | Synonyms: replacement |
(noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, reliever, stand-in |
(noun) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced | Synonyms: reserve, second-stringer |
(verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, interchange, replace |
(verb) be a substitute | Synonyms: fill in, stand in, sub |
(verb) act as a substitute | Synonyms: deputise, deputize, step in |
substituting | (noun) working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence | Synonyms: subbing |
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substitution | (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: commutation, exchange |
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(noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, switch, transposition |
substrate | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substratum |
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(noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substratum |
(noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substratum |
(noun) the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment | - |
substratum | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substrate |
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(noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substrate |
(noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substrate |
substring | (noun) a string that is part of a longer string | - |
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substructure | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, understructure |
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(noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: infrastructure |
subsume | (verb) consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle | Synonyms: colligate |
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(verb) contain or include | - |
subsumption | (noun) incorporating something under a more general category | - |
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(noun) the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) | Synonyms: minor premise, minor premiss |
subsurface | (adjective) beneath the surface | - |
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subsystem | (noun) a system that is part of some larger system | - |
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transubstantiate | (verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transform, transmute |
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(verb) change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ | - |
transubstantiation | (noun) an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | Synonyms: transmutation |
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(noun) the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist | - |
unsubstantial | (adjective) lacking material form or substance; unreal | Synonyms: insubstantial, unreal |
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unsubstantialise | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, immaterialize, unsubstantialize |
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unsubstantialize | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, immaterialize, unsubstantialise |
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unsubstantiated | (adjective) unsupported by other evidence | Synonyms: uncorroborated |
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