The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms INTRO ...

oard, nourishment, nutriment, aliment; maintenance, keep,
upkeep: We depend on your salary for our subsistence, so forget
about quitting your job.
substance n. 1 material, matter, stuff; fabric, composition, make-up:
She couldn't recognize the substance in the bottle. The comet's
substance is mainly ice and dirt. 2 essence, pith, heart, core,
gist, burden, theme, meat, kernel, nub, crux, sum total, sum and
substance, point, gravamen, haecceity, quintessence, quiddity:
Explain, in 500 or fewer words, the substance of Hegel's dispute
with Kant. 3 meaning, import, significance, purport,
signification, point: Our visit to San Francisco gave substance
to all we had read about it. 4 reality, corporeality, solidity,
actuality, concreteness: You must learn to deal with the
substance, not the shadows. 5 means, wealth, property,
possessions, riches, resources, affluence, assets: John Culver
was a citizen of some substance in this town.
substantial
adj. 1 material, considerable, significant, great, worthwhile,
consequential, ample, goodly, respectable, abundant, generous,
big, large, sizeable, major, Colloq tidy, healthy: We
understand that he made a substantial payment to keep his name
out of the papers. 2 strong, solid, well-built, durable, sound,
stout, sturdy; big, large, massive, huge, sizeable, impressive,
vast; numerous, numberless: A substantial mausoleum was
constructed for his family. A substantial crowd had gathered. 3
well-founded, sound, weighty, solid, well-established, telling,
good, valid, actual: Many economists produced substantial
arguments in favour of another cut in interest rates. 4 wealthy,
well-to-do, rich, affluent, prosperous, profitable, successful;
landed, propertied: The Trevelyan Ironworks is a substantial
business, and Mr Trevelyan is one of our more substantial
businessmen.
substantially
adv. in substance, essentially, at bottom, fundamentally,
basically, in essence, intrinsically, in reality, at heart,
sincerely, truly, actually, in truth, veritably, indeed, in
fact, as a matter of fact; largely, to a large extent, in large
measure, materially, practically, in the main, for the most
part, mostly, virtually, to all intents and purposes; Archaic
verily: The article was substantially sound. Do you agree