Substantial vs Fleshy - What's the difference?
substantial | fleshy | Related terms |
Having to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.
Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable.
* "to do some substantial good, is the compensation for much incidental imperfection" - Cardinal Newman, The Rise and Progress of Universities
Corporeal; material; firm.
Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall.
possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder.
Large in size, quantity, or value; as, a substantial amount of money; vast
Most important; essential.
Ample or full.
Significantly great.
Of, related to, or resembling flesh.
* 1850 , , David Copperfield , ch. 7:
* 1901 , , The First Men in the Moon , ch. 8:
(of a person) Having considerable flesh.
* 1894 , , The Prisoner of Zenda , ch. 3:
* 1908 , , "The Heathen":
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Substantial is a related term of fleshy.
As adjectives the difference between substantial and fleshy
is that substantial is having to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life while fleshy is of, related to, or resembling flesh.As a noun substantial
is anything having substance; an essential part.substantial
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A substantial amount of people in this buliding
Derived terms
* consubstantial * insubstantial * substantiality * substantially * substantialnessfleshy
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Adjective
(en-adj)- Mr. Creakle . . . showed me the cane, and asked me what I thought of THAT? . . . Did it bite? At every question he gave me a fleshy cut with it that made me writhe.
- [O]ver reefs and banks of shining rock, a bristling beard of spiky and fleshy vegetation was straining into view.
- The King's face was slightly more fleshy than mine, the oval of its contour the least trifle more pronounced.
- He was a large fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly-mountain of fat.
Google Earth Takes On the Prado's Masterworks," Time , 15 Jan.:
- It's hard to imagine why Flemish Renaissance artist Peter Paul Rubens would paint a blemish on the backside of one of the fleshy lovelies meant to represent beauty, charm and good cheer, but there's no denying that single red brushstroke in the midst of his central figure's creamy skin.