| query | If you say that something has no s________, you mean that it is not true .If you say that something has no substance, you mean that it is not true . There is no substance in any of these allegations. |
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| word | substance |
| full-definition | noun A substance is a solid, powder, liquid, or gas with particular properties. Ethylene glycol is a poisonous substance found in antifreeze. The substance that's causing the problem comes from the barley. Substance is the quality of being important or significant . It's questionable whether anything of substance has been achieved. Syria will attend only if the negotiations deal with issues of substance. The substance of what someone says or writes is the main thing that they are trying to say. The substance of his discussions doesn't really matter. If you say that something has no substance, you mean that it is not true . There is no substance in any of these allegations. |
| inflections | substances |
| cefr-level | B1 |
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