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sub·stan·tial·ly

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. well, considerably, substantiallyadverb

    to a great extent or degree

    "I'm afraid the film was well over budget"; "painting the room white made it seem considerably (or substantially) larger"; "the house has fallen considerably in value"; "the price went up substantially"

  2. substantiallyadverb

    in a strong substantial way

    "the house was substantially built"

Wiktionary

  1. substantiallyadverb

    In a strong substantial manner; considerably.

  2. substantiallyadverb

    To a great extent; in essence; essentially.

  3. substantiallyadverb

    Without material qualifications.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Substantiallyadverb

    Etymology: from substantial.

    In him his Father shone substantially express’d. John Milton.

    Having so substantially provided for the North, they promised themselves they should end the war that Summer. Edward Hyde.

    The laws of this religion would make men, if they would truly observe them, substantially religious towards God, chaste and temperate. John Tillotson.

ChatGPT

  1. substantially

    Substantially generally refers to a large amount or to a great extent. It is something considerable in quantity, significance, or worth. This term is often used to denote something that is noticeably or measurably large in size, amount, degree, intensity, or worth.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Substantiallyadverb

    in a substantial manner; in substance; essentially

British National Corpus

  1. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'substantially' in Adverbs Frequency: #320

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of substantially in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of substantially in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of substantially in a Sentence

  1. Steven Taylor:

    In some ways, that Roy Moore has a very strong religious element to his politics is not substantially out of the mainstream for the state.

  2. Lister Staveley-Smith:

    The electronic technology at the back end is substantially different and that is why we can still keep using these old telescopes.

  3. Sonia Sotomayor:

    This is not quite ignorance of the law. This is something substantially different because you're talking about ... knowledge that your body can be invaded by police to secure evidence to prove you drove intoxicated.

  4. Dan Jaffe:

    The Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative has substantially improved the healthfulness of foods advertised to kids, the IWG proposals went way overboard and were not appropriate, 87 of the top 100 most consumed foods in the U.S. would not meet the standards.

  5. Mark Woolhouse:

    Using a mathematical model the authors show that even under the most pessimistic assumption that young people are fully infectious then school closures could still have substantially less impact on the epidemic than they would for influenza-like infections.

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Translations for substantially

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  • wesentlich, erheblich, beträchtlich, substanziell, im Grunde, im KernGerman
  • قابل ملاحظهPersian
  • substantiellementFrench
  • lényegesenHungarian
  • באופן מהותיHebrew
  • i alt vesentligt, vesentligenNorwegian
  • существенноRussian
  • i allt väsentligt, väsentligenSwedish
  • çok, esas itibariyle, epeyce, büyük ölçüde, oldukça, haddi zatında, ciddi anlamda, esasen, aslında, temelde, ciddi manadaTurkish

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