substantiative

1. 1.

   serving to support or corroborate

   “collateral evidence”

   Synonymscollateralconfirmativeconfirmingconfirmatorycorroborativecorroboratorysubstantiatingvalidatingvalidatoryverificatoryverifying

   Similarsupportive

Questions about substantiative

What does substantiative mean?

substantiative means "serving to support or corroborate".

How many syllables are in substantiative?

substantiative has 5 syllables: sub-stan-ti-a-tive. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for substantiative?

Close synonyms include collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is substantiative a common word?

substantiative is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.