substantially

adverbC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,896 of 15,258mostly written

Substantially means to a large extent. Substantially higher, substantially complete, substantially the same.

In contracts it is doing exact work rather than vague: substantially complete is a defined stage at which a building can be used and the money falls due. Substantially the same means the differences do not matter.

Definitions of substantially

1adverbsubstantiallyTo a large extent.C1
“The new edition of the book is substantially longer than the first.”

substantially is a degree.

Where it comes from

Latin
substantiālis
Old French
substanciel
Middle English
substancial
English
substantial
English, today
substantially

From substantial + -ly. substantial comes from Middle English substancial, substantiall, from Old French substanciel, substantiel and its etymon Latin substantiālis.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

substantially in the wild

However, due to low ratings the program's airtime was reduced substantially.
Jam!
At the same time, the prices were substantially lower than those on the EU market and had actually decreased over the same period.
Everything but Arms
The process can alter the structure of the acceptor substantially.
Electron acceptor
The revised charter could have substantially changed the structure of the government of Detroit if it was approved.
Government of Detroit
The scheme, no longer in operation, was based on the wholesale cost of calls to rural Iowa being substantially more than the cost of Internet calls to China.
Area code 641

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