Entertainment / Literature / Substantive Adjective: An adjective that stands by itself in the place of an implied noun--a type of rhetorical ellipsis. In the beatitudes, for instance, Christ says 'Blessed are the meek.' Here, the word meek is a substantive adjective for the implied meek people. We talk of the 'wails of the damned' or the 'troubles of the dispossessed.' One spaghetti Western confronts the audience with The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Karen Elizabeth Gordon writes that her grammar handbook is designed 'for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed.' These are all substantive adjectives that gleefully cast their nouns aside and stand alone.
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Entertainment / Literature / Substantive: A substantive word or phrase is one that can functoin as a noun within a sentence or clause. See especially substantive adjective, below. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Substantive Text: A text based upon access to an original manuscript as opposed to a text derived only from an earlier edition. MORE
Entertainment / Photography / Substantive Film: Color film in which the color couplers are contained within the emulsion. MORE