Substance

Noun

 * 1) Physical matter; material.
 * 2) The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
 * 3) Considerable wealth or resources.
 * A man of substance.
 * 1) Drugs illegal narcotics
 * substance abuse

Related terms

 * stand under
 * subsist
 * substantial
 * substantive
 * understand

Adjectives for Substance
natural; softening; unsightly; poisonous; combustible; essential; spiritual; tremendous; obstructing; tolerated; sterner; toxic; demulcent; emotional; intellectual; earthly; noble; insulating; viscid; gelatinous; perfumed; innocuous; permeable; authenticating; inert; injurious; scanty; metallic; waste; watery; abrasive; adulterate; pulpy; deleterious; luminous; delicate; innumerable (pi); gummy; artificial; material; life-giving; synthetic; convertible; reorganized; vital; incorruptible; homogeneous;  prepared; solid; bituminous; dilated; harsh; caustic;  refulgent;   rebellious;   vitreous; glossy; tenacious; malleable; gaseous; porous; desiccated; durable; mollifying; slovenly; putrid; versatile.

Verbs for Substance
absorb—; administer—; alter—; compound —; condense—; convert—; dehydrate—; desiccate—; disperse—; dissolve—; embody in—; employ—; express—; fritter away—; lack—; lose—; market—; oxidize—; pulver¬ize—; reach—; reflect—; secrete—; value —; —activates; —congeals; —crumbles; — disintegrates; —endures; —ossifies; —petri¬fies; —produces; —resists; —yields; produce—.

Thesaurus
Swiss bank account, actuality, affective meaning, affluence, air, amount, amplitude, assets, atom, atomic particles, atoms, axiom, balance, bank account, basis, bearing, being, bench mark, best part, better part, body, bottom, bottom dollar, bottomless purse, brute matter, budget, building block, bulging purse, bulk, burden, call, cardinal point, case, cash reserves, cause, center, chapter, checking account, chemical element, chief thing, climax, coloring, command of money, component, composition, concern, concreteness, connotation, consequence, constituent, core, cornerstone, corporeality, corpus, crisis, critical point, crux, denotation, density, distillate, distillation, drift, durability, earth, easy circumstances, effect, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, elixir, embarras de richesses, entity, essence, essential, essential matter, essentiality, exchequer, extension, extent, fabric, finances, fire, firmness, flower, focus, focus of attention, focus of interest, force, fortune, foundation, fund, fundamental, fundamental particle, funds, generality, gist, gold, good reason, grammatical meaning, gravamen, great point, ground, grounds, handsome fortune, head, heading, heart, high income, high point, high tax bracket, hyle, hypostasis, idea, impact, implication, import, important thing, independence, individual, inner essence, intension, issue, kernel, keystone, kitty, landmark, lexical meaning, life savings, literal meaning, living issue, lucre, luxuriousness, magnitude, main body, main point, main thing, major part, majority, mammon, marrow, mass, material, material basis, material point, material resources, material wealth, material world, materiality, materials, materiel, matter, matter in hand, meaning, meaningfulness, means, measure, measurement, meat, medium, milestone, molecule, monad, money, money to burn, moneybags, moneys, most, motif, motive, natural world, nature, nest egg, nub, nubbin, nucleus, numbers, nuts and bolts, object, opulence, opulency, overtone, palpability, pecuniary resources, pelf, pertinence, physical world, pith, pivot, plenum, plurality, pocket, point, point at issue, point in question, ponderability, pool, possessions, postulate, practical consequence, principle, problem, property, prosperity, prosperousness, purport, purse, quantity, quantum, question, quid, quiddity, quintessence, quintessential, range of meaning, raw material, real issue, real meaning, reality, reason, recap, recapitulation, reference, referent, relation, relevance, reserves, resources, resume, riches, richness, right, rubric, run-through, rundown, salient point, sap, savings, savings account, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, short, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, sine qua non, solidity, soul, soundness, span of meaning, spirit, stability, staple, steadiness, stock, store, stoutness, strength, structural meaning, stuff, sturdiness, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, substances, substantiality, substantialness, substantive point, substratum, sum, sum and substance, sum total, summary, summation, supply, symbolic meaning, tangibility, tangible, tenor, text, the bottom line, the four elements, the nitty-gritty, the point, theme, thrust, topic, totality of associations, toughness, transferred meaning, treasure, turning point, unadorned meaning, undertone, unit of being, unregistered bank account, upper bracket, upshot, value, warrant, water, wealth, wealthiness, wherewithal, whole, worth

Etymology
From substance:, from  substantia:, from substans:, present active participle of substo:, from sub: + sto:.

Translations

 * Catalan: substància
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: substanco
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ουσία
 * Hebrew: חומר
 * Hindi: पदार्थ


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: viela
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: substanță
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: పదార్థము
 * Turkish:


 * Catalan: substància
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 實質, 实质
 * Danish: substans, hovedindhold
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ουσία
 * Hebrew: תוכן
 * Hungarian:


 * Japanese: 骨子
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: substanță
 * Scottish Gaelic: susbaint
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Japanese: ,


 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: substanță
 * Russian: вес
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek: ουσίες
 * Greek: ουσίες


 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: drog, droguri, narcotic
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * : lëndë
 * : (mádda)
 * : maddə
 * : вещество (vešestvo)
 * : substantie
 * : substanco
 * : aine
 * : bahan
 * : substantia
 * : sostanza


 * : 실체 (silche), 물질 (muljil)
 * : turinys
 * : substaunce
 * : (kholâseh)
 * : substanţă
 * : hmota
 * : madde
 * : (madda)
 * : chất
 * : sylwedd
 * : מאַטעריע (materye)

Noun

 * 1) substance

Etymology
From substantia:, from substans:, present active participle of substo:, from sub: + sto:.

Anagrams

 * cubassent