👉 Okay, letās tackle that wonderfully prickly little pixie ā the admittedly rather stuffy sounding adverb, decidedlyā¦'āą§·ą§·.
.ā¦... substantively!ā¦...'āą§·ą§·
Now, most guys just throw out, "It was substantively good!," picturing a really plump roast goose, frankly. And while it does conjure that imageāthat of something genuinely substantial , you get the pointālet me unpack that. Essentially, when something is substantively something (⦠letās say substantively awful, for this example)⦠we mean there's not just a glancing blow, there isnāt merely some mild annoyance. Instead. The thing in question, it's gone deep . Itās burrowed under the skin. You wouldnāt just shrug and say, "Okay, that was okay." No, no, you are now actively, almost aggressively affected by this. Think of a beige wall that wasn't just beige; you feel it in your very being, an oppressive beige, that actively diminishes the human spirit. That is substantively beige. The suffix "-nestly," if I may borrow the name for the occasion, acts as the emphatic hammer blow of reality! Itās not just a little bit of something. The effect is... significant. 30,000 people would be substantively inconvenienced by an outbreak of locust swarms in this town. (Okay