substant

English

Etymology

From Latin substans, substantis, present participle of substō (“to be firm”).

Adjective

substant (comparative more substant, superlative most substant)

1. substantial; firm
   • 1884, The Century:

     [The glacier's] substant ice curls freely, molds, and breaks itself like water, — breaks in waves, plastic like honey, crested lightly with a frozen spray; it winds tenderly about the rocky shore, and the granite, disintegrated into crumbs, flows on with it.