Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of no importance or relevance; inconsequential or irrelevant.
- adj. Having no material body or form.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not consisting of matter; not material.
- Without special significance or importance; of no essential consequence; unimportant.
- Specifically, in law:
- Not relevant; having no bearing on the question: as, immaterial evidence.
- Not absolutely essential to constitute the cause of action or defense: as, an immaterial averment (a statement of unnecessary particulars).
- Synonyms Unessential, non-essential, insignificant.
- n. Something not material.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having no matter or substance.
- adj. Irrelevant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied.
- adj. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. without material form or substance
- adj. not pertinent to the matter under consideration
- adj. (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other
- adj. not consisting of matter
- adj. of no importance or relevance especially to a law case
Etymologies
- im- + material (Wiktionary)
Examples
“[NOTE TO SELF, FIND THIS: Sergio Bologna, "Problematiche del lavoro autonomo in Italia" (Part I), Altreragioni, no. 1 (1992), pp. 11-32; discussion of the term immaterial labor on 10-27.]”
“Meanwhile, Mr. Tondato said Autogrill has suffered minimal impact from the ongoing crisis in Japan following the recent earthquake and tsunami, with what he described as an "immaterial decrease" in boarding cards to and from Japan in recent days.”
The Wall Street Journal: Autogrill Expands Starbucks Contract
“Even among people who believe in immaterial concepts like mind, there would be much disagreement over the cause of the concepts.”
“For someone to imagine the immaterial when neither they nor anyone else has ever experienced the immaterial is rather like trying to imagine a fifth dimension -- it is something so far out of our perception that conceiving of it seems nearly impossible.”
“To say that the human soul, angels, God, are immaterial is to say they are nothings, or that there is no God, no angels, no soul.”
Think Progress » ElBaradei, Smeared By Administration, Wins Nobel Peace Prize
“One step advanced beyond this, Jerry's uttermost, the folk of Somo, from the contemplation of death, had achieved concepts of the spirits of the dead still living in immaterial and supersensuous realms.”
“Even his shingle read: "Ladies 'Tailor: Abramka Stiftik" -- the most valid proof that he deemed his name immaterial, but that the chief thing to him was his art.”
“One step advanced beyond this, Jerry’s uttermost, the folk of Somo, from the contemplation of death, had achieved concepts of the spirits of the dead still living in immaterial and supersensuous realms.”
“David McGowan, San Diego: The form license debate is endlessly repetitive and focuses on something everybody knows is immaterial, which is assent.”
“I dislike both of those words, because for me, the so-called immaterial and spiritual is always vested in the fleshly — in "the holy and glorious flesh," as Dante said.”
Wired: Oliver Sacks on Earworms, Stevie Wonder and the View From Mescaline Mountain
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘immaterial’.
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imm
immunogen, immobile, immiscible, shimmy, slimming, glimmer, immigrate, immutability, swimmingly, brimming, primming, skimming and 25 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 998 more...
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And another
retrocausality, brusque, gainsay, cheerio, jaundiced, chamois, caw, craw, fudge, bubbler, shebang, bolo and 244 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL I
iconoclast, idiosyncrasy, ignoble, ignominious, illicit, illusory, illustrious, imbibe, imbue, immaculate, immaterial, immolate and 155 more...
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My Revised GRE Preparation List
Words from the new GRE : This list consists mostly of words from the book Magoosh-GRE-vocab-ebook, which is one of the best vocab materials available, especially if you have started preparing one ...
alacrity, prosaic, veracity, paucity, contrite, trite, maintain, laconic, pugnacious, disparate, egregious, innocuous and 533 more...
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GRE
high frequent
industrious, feckless, debunk, quintessence, loquacious, obsequious, laconic, plethora, lugubrious, serendipity, facetious, turgid and 261 more...
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words unfamiliar to me.
Unfamiliar words that are pleasing, or interesting.
tacit, repudiate, laconic, erudite, disabuse, guile, zeitgeist, cherubic, subvert, senescence, salient, fecund and 93 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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Hilary's List
Just a list of words I like
wellspring, mystery, wonderment, intrinsic, artisan, enchantment, magic, transience, incomplete, impermanent, imperfect, resonance and 163 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate, amalgam and 1781 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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harry p
travesty, twilit, amort, fussy, sentinel, balustrade, lumbago, trice, gable, unwonted, impunity, perfunctory and 104 more...
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I
infinity, indigo, iguana, ignorance, illumination, interest, immunity, illusion, inverted, introvert, insistence, introspective and 46 more...
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magoosh1
aberration, aboveboard, abysmal, ace, affable, aghast, alacrity, ambiguous, ambivalent, ameliorate, amenable, amiable and 222 more...
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