Substitute and Variant

Substitute

Substitute adjective - Being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials.

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Variant and substitute are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Variant" with "Substitute", this adjectives are similar.

Variant adjective - Exhibiting variation and change.

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Substitute and variant are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Substitute" instead an adjective "Variant".

Nearby Words: variation, variance, variability

good	good substitute	good variant
notable	notable substitute	notable variant
special	special substitute	special variant
similar	similar substitute	similar variant
Other adjectives: common, original, powerful, actual, magic, new, possible, accidental, occasional, different, local.

An adult variant occurs in Song of the Lioness when Myles of Olau formally adopts Alanna, having been a Parental Substitute during her page years.

Source: Happily Adopted
A variant in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: after the death of Harry's Parental Substitute Sirius, the only person who is really able to console him is Luna, who tells him about how her mother died.

Source: Bonding Over Missing Parents
The music video for Area 7's "Nobody Likes A Bogan" features the tennis racquet/cricket bat substitute variant.

Source: Air Guitar

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