Substance ˈsʌbstəns Noun Bre Chemical/Radioactive Banned/Illegal Drugs Sticky

• a chemical/radioactive, etc. substance
• banned/illegal substances (= drugs)
• a sticky substance
• it was malicious gossip, completely without substance.

substance

1. a type of solid, liquid or gas that has particular qualities
• a chemical/radioactive, etc. substance
• banned/illegal substances (= drugs)
• a sticky substance
2. the quality of being based on facts or the truth
• It was malicious gossip, completely without substance.
• The commission's report gives substance to these allegations.
• There is some substance in what he says.
3. the most important or main part of something
• Love and guilt form the substance of his new book.
• 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.
4. importance
• synonym significance
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• matters of substance
• Nothing of any substance was achieved in the meeting.
5. a rich and powerful man or woman

Extra Examples

• His disappearance has given added substance to the argument that he stole the money.
• Nothing of substance was achieved at the meeting.
• Some frogs produce toxic substances in their skin.
• The athletes had taken banned substances to increase their strength.
• The image of him that the media have presented has no substance.
• The letters lent substance to the claims.
• The real substance of the report was in the third part.
• Their allegations were without substance.
• There was little substance to his claims.
• There’s no difference in substance between the two points of view.
• There’s no substance in the story.
• a bag full of some unknown substance
• a natural substance found in the body of animals
• foreign substances that contaminated the experiments
• lyrics with substance
• the material substance of which we are made
• the substance of the evidence against him
• Exercise of this kind improves the balance of fatty substances in the bloodstream.
• He found it difficult to say much of substance.
• He was disqualified from competing after testing positive to a banned substance.
• I agree with what he said in substance, though not with every detail.
• No one raised any matters of substance.
• Psychoactive drugs are chemical substances that act on the brain.
• Substances can be divided into elements, compounds and mixtures.
• The party’s manifesto is good on style but lacks real substance.

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.