substantively

[ suhb-stuhn-tiv-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a way that has to do with the meaning, subject matter, or essential nature of something:
These guidelines and the current accessibility standards for transportation vehicles are substantively the same.
I'm not qualified to substantively evaluate the scholar’s argument.
to a large degree; significantly:
This is a small difference, though, and not substantively meaningful.
While constrained by congressional statutes, federal agencies can substantively shape the policies within their jurisdiction.

Instead of substantively responding to these failed expectations, the ACE takes a spin-cycle approach.

Instead, busing was a failure—conceptually and substantively—because of faulty liberal assumptions.

Substantively, as opposed to stylistically, there was no New Left.

Substantively, I think he pretty well signaled that the Justice Department isn't going to take up this case.

"All the denials can be literally technically true without anything in the story being substantively false," he told me.

He would have been ugly, he substantively granted, had he not been happy; he would have been dangerous had he not been warranted.

I have myself used this word substantively, to express the rippled edge of a wing-feather.

Cardinal numerals, used substantively, are also followed by the genitive: zweinzec starker man, twenty strong men.

Stillness; the adjective used substantively, for the sake of the rhyme.

Fleury differs a little from this legend, but has substantively preserved it.

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