Meaning of IMMATERIAL
| Pronunciation: | | `im'uteereeul
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- [adj] not consisting of matter; "immaterial apparitions"; "ghosts and other immaterial entities"
- [adj] without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit"
- [adj] lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other; often followed by"to"; "whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)"; "what others think is altogether indifferent to him"
- [adj] of no importance or relevance especially to a law case; "an objection that is immaterial after the fact"
- [adj] not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point"
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| | Synonyms: | | bodiless, discorporate, disembodied, extraneous, impertinent, incorporeal, indifferent, intangible, irrelevant, nonmaterial, nonphysical, spiritual, unbodied, unembodied, unimportant |
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| | Antonyms: | | corporeal, material | | |
| | See Also: | | insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Im`ma*te"ri*al\ ([i^]m`m[.a]*t[=e]"r[i^]*al), a.
[Pref. im- not + material: cf. F. immat['e]riel.]
1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual;
disembodied.
Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual.
--Hooker.
2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or
significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial
whether he does so or not.
Syn: Unimportant; inconsequential; insignificant;
inconsiderable; trifling.
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| | Related Terms: | | adrift, aerial, airy, apparitional, asomatous, astral, back-burner, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, bodiless, celestial, decarnate, decarnated, dinky, discarnate, disembodied, dispensable, ephemeral, ethereal, evanescent, extramundane, extraneous, extrinsic, fanciful, flimsy, foreign, ghostly, heavenly, illusory, imaginary, impalpable, impertinent, imponderable, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappreciable, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, incorporate, incorporeal, inessential, inferior, insensible, insignificant, insubstantial, intangible, irrelative, irrelevant, light, little, merely nominal, metaphysical, minor, minute, negligible, nihil ad rem, nonessential, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, not at issue, not real, not vital, nugatory, occult, off the subject, otherworldly, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, petit, petty, phantom, psychic, shadowy, slight, small, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, technical, transmundane, trifling, trivial, unactual, unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied, unessential, unextended, unfleshly, unimportant, unimpressive, unnoteworthy, unphysical, unreal, unrealistic, unsolid, unsubstanced, unsubstantial, unworldly, weightless |
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