Thesaurus
substantial
Synonyms and Antonyms of substantial
- substantial changes to the school dress code that made a lot of people unhappy
decisive, fatal, fateful, strategic
earnest, grave, heavy, serious, sincere
distinctive, exceptional, impressive, outstanding, prominent, remarkable
distinguished, eminent, great, illustrious, noble, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, preeminent, prestigious
all-important, central, critical, crucial, essential, key, pivotal, seminal, vital
- the amount he inherited was quite substantial, so he quit his job and set out to see the world
astronomical (also astronomic), Brobdingnagian, bumper, Bunyanesque, cavernous, colossal, cosmic (also cosmical), cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, galactic, gargantuan, gigantic, gross, hellacious, herculean, heroic (also heroical), Himalayan, huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), leviathan, major, mammoth, massive, monolithic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pharaonic, prodigious, staggering, stupendous, super, super-duper, supersized, titanic, tremendous, vast, vasty, walloping, whacking, whopping
excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, inordinate
diminutive, half-pint, infinitesimal, Lilliputian, little-bitty, microminiature, microscopic (also microscopical), mini, miniature, minuscule, minute, pint-size (or pint-sized), pocket-size (also pocket-sized), pygmy, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee
- the Land of Oz turned out to be a world of dreams, even less substantial than a rainbow
- there's been a substantial increase in attendance at girls' volleyball games ever since the start of their winning streak
biggish, considerable, good, goodly, handsome, healthy, largish, major, respectable, significant, sizable (or sizeable), substantive, tidy
big, bulky, hefty, hulking, outsize (also outsized), oversize (or oversized), voluminous
astronomical (also astronomic), bumper, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gigantic, great, herculean, huge, immense, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), mammoth, massive, monstrous, monumental, prodigious, titanic, tremendous, whopping
measly, minute, paltry, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, puny, trifling, trivial, unimportant
marginal, meager (or meagre), slight
little, small, tiny, undersized (also undersize)
bitty, diminutive, miniature, pint-size (or pint-sized), pocket, pocket-size (also pocket-sized), pygmy, smallish
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