Substance ˈsʌbstəns Extra Examples Noun Sticky Chemical/Radioactive/Hazardous Frogs

• a sticky substance
• a chemical/radioactive/hazardous substance
• some frogs produce toxic substances in their skin.
• illegal/controlled substances

substance

1. a type of solid, liquid or gas that has particular qualities
• a sticky substance
• a chemical/radioactive/hazardous substance
• Some frogs produce toxic substances in their skin.

Extra Examples

• Exercise of this kind improves the balance of fatty substances in the bloodstream.
• Psychoactive drugs are chemical substances that act on the brain.
• a bag full of some unknown substance
• a natural substance found in the body of animals
• foreign substances that contaminated the experiments
2. a drug, especially an illegal one
• illegal/controlled substances
• He was disqualified from competing after testing positive to a banned substance.
• Adolescent substance use remains high in the United States.
3. the quality of being based on facts or the truth
• The commission's report gives substance to these allegations.
• There is some substance in what he says.
• It was malicious gossip, completely without substance.

Extra Examples

• His disappearance has given added substance to the argument that he stole the money.
• The image of him that the media have presented has no substance.
• The letters lent substance to the claims.
• Their allegations were without substance.
• There was little substance to his claims.
• There's no substance in the story.
• The party's manifesto is good on style but lacks real substance.
4. the most important or main part of something
• Love and guilt form the substance of his new book.
• The real substance of the report was in the third part.
• I agreed with what she said in substance, though not with every detail.
• There seems to be no difference in substance between the two procedures.
5. importance
• SYNONYM significance
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• matters of substance
• Nothing of any substance was achieved in the meeting.

Extra Examples

• He found it difficult to say much of substance.
• No one raised any matters of substance.
6. a rich and powerful man or woman

Word Origin

• Middle English (denoting the essential nature of something): from Old French, from Latin substantia ‘being, essence’, from substant- ‘standing firm’, from the verb substare.