substant

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin substans, substantis, present participle of substō (to be firm).

Adjective

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substant (comparative more substant, superlative most substant)

  1. substantial; firm
    • 1884, The Century:
      [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, disintegrated into crumbs, flows on with it.