| sublime | (adjective) lifted up or set high | - |
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| (adjective) inspiring awe | Synonyms: empyreal, empyrean |
| (adjective) greatest or maximal in degree; extreme | Synonyms: supreme |
| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified |
| (adjective) worthy of adoration or reverence | Synonyms: reverend |
| (verb) vaporize and then condense right back again | Synonyms: sublimate |
| (verb) change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting | Synonyms: sublimate |
| sublimed | (adjective) passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid | Synonyms: sublimated |
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| sublimely | (adverb) in a lofty and exalted manner | - |
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| (adverb) to the maximum degree | Synonyms: supremely |
| subliminal | (adjective) below the threshold of conscious perception | - |
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| sublimit | (noun) (insurance) a limitation in an amount of loss coverage. | - |
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| sublimity | (noun) nobility in thought or feeling or style | - |
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| sublingual | (adjective) beneath the tongue | - |
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| subliterary | (adjective) not written as or intended to be literature | - |
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| sublittoral | (adjective) of or relating to the region of the continental shelf (between the seashore and the edge of the continental shelf) or the marine organisms situated there | - |
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| sublunar | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: cislunar, sublunary |
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| (adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunary, terrestrial |
| sublunary | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: cislunar, sublunar |
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| (adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunar, terrestrial |
| subluxate | (verb) sprain or dislocate slightly | - |
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| subluxation | (noun) partial displacement of a joint or organ | - |
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| submarine | (adjective) beneath the surface of the sea | Synonyms: undersea |
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| (noun) a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes | Synonyms: pigboat, sub |
| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| (verb) attack by submarine | - |
| (verb) bring down with a blow to the legs | - |
| (verb) throw with an underhand motion | - |
| (verb) control a submarine | - |
| (verb) move forward or under in a sliding motion | - |
| submariner | (noun) a member of the crew of a submarine | - |
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| submaxilla | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone |
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| submediant | (noun) (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic) | - |
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| submenu | (noun) a secondary menu that appears while you are holding the cursor over an item on the primary menu | Synonyms: cascading menu, hierarchical menu |
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| submerge | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: deluge, inundate |
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| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: drown, overwhelm |
| (verb) put under water | Synonyms: submerse |
| (verb) sink below the surface; go under or as if under water | Synonyms: submerse |
| submerged | (adjective) beneath the surface of the water | Synonyms: submersed, underwater |
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| (adjective) growing or remaining under water | Synonyms: subaquatic, subaqueous, submersed, underwater |
| submergence | (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: immersion, submerging, submersion |
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| submergible | (adjective) capable of being immersed in water or functioning while submerged | Synonyms: submersible |
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| submerging | (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: immersion, submergence, submersion |
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| submerse | (verb) put under water | Synonyms: submerge |
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| (verb) sink below the surface; go under or as if under water | Synonyms: submerge |
| submersed | (adjective) beneath the surface of the water | Synonyms: submerged, underwater |
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| (adjective) growing or remaining under water | Synonyms: subaquatic, subaqueous, submerged, underwater |
| submersible | (adjective) capable of being immersed in water or functioning while submerged | Synonyms: submergible |
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| (noun) a warship designed to operate under water | Synonyms: submersible warship |
| (noun) an apparatus intended for use under water | - |
| submersion | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, ducking, immersion |
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| (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: immersion, submergence, submerging |
| submission | (noun) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | Synonyms: compliance |
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| (noun) something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition) | Synonyms: entry |
| (noun) an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter | - |
| (noun) a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter | - |
| (noun) (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing | - |
| (noun) the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness | Synonyms: meekness |
| (noun) the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else | - |
| submissive | (adjective) inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination | - |
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| (adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: slavish, subservient |
| submissively | (adverb) in a servile manner | Synonyms: deferentially |
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| submissiveness | (noun) the trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force etc. | - |
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| submit | (verb) accept as inevitable | Synonyms: reconcile, resign |
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| (verb) accept or undergo, often unwillingly | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) put before | Synonyms: posit, put forward, state |
| (verb) refer for judgment or consideration | - |
| (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, bow, defer, give in |
| (verb) yield to the control of another | - |
| (verb) make an application as for a job or funding | Synonyms: put in |
| (verb) hand over formally | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) make over as a return | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) refer to another person for decision or judgment | Synonyms: pass on, relegate |
| submitter | (noun) someone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others | - |
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| (noun) someone who yields to the will of another person or force | - |
| submucosa | (noun) the connective tissue beneath mucous membrane | - |
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| subnormal | (adjective) below normal or average | - |
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| (noun) a person of less than normal intelligence | - |
| subnormality | (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, slowness |
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| (noun) the state of being less than normal (especially with respect to intelligence) | - |
| subocean | (adjective) formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed | Synonyms: suboceanic |
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| suboceanic | (adjective) formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed | Synonyms: subocean |
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| subocular | (adjective) situated on or below the floor of the eye socket | Synonyms: suborbital |
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| suborbital | (adjective) having or involving a trajectory of less than one orbit | - |
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| (adjective) situated on or below the floor of the eye socket | Synonyms: subocular |
| suborder | (noun) (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order | - |
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| subordinate | (adjective) lower in rank or importance | Synonyms: low-level |
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| (adjective) subject or submissive to authority or the control of another | - |
| (adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: dependent |
| (noun) a word that is more specific than a given word | Synonyms: hyponym, subordinate word |
| (noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | Synonyms: foot soldier, subsidiary, underling |
| (verb) make subordinate, dependent, or subservient | Synonyms: subdue |
| (verb) rank or order as less important or consider of less value | - |
| subordinateness | (noun) secondary importance | Synonyms: subsidiarity |
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| subordinating | (adjective) serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause | Synonyms: subordinative |
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| subordination | (noun) the act of mastering or subordinating someone | Synonyms: mastery |
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| (noun) the quality of obedient submissiveness | - |
| (noun) the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head | - |
| (noun) the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class | Synonyms: hyponymy |
| (noun) the state of being subordinate to something | - |
| subordinative | (adjective) serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause | Synonyms: subordinating |
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| suborn | (verb) induce to commit perjury or give false testimony | - |
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| (verb) procure (false testimony or perjury) | - |
| (verb) incite to commit a crime or an evil deed | - |
| subornation | (noun) underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful | - |
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| (noun) perjured testimony that someone was persuaded to give | - |
| suborner | (noun) someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act | Synonyms: briber |
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| subpart | (noun) a part of a part | - |
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| subphylum | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and a class | - |
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| subpoena | (noun) a writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding; disobedience may be punishable as a contempt of court | Synonyms: subpoena ad testificandum |
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| (verb) serve or summon with a subpoena | - |
| subpoint | (noun) A point (proposition in a debate etc.) that forms part of a larger point. | - |
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| subpopulation | (noun) a population that is part of a larger population | - |
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| subprogram | (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: function, procedure, routine, subroutine |
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| subrogate | (verb) substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured | - |
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| subrogation | (noun) (law) the act of substituting of one creditor for another | - |
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| subroutine | (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: function, procedure, routine, subprogram |
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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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