Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not material.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Not material; immaterial.

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  • adjective Not material.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ material

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Examples

  • It was completely out of character for Mia, the dreamy, artistic unmaterial girl, to get worked up over the loss of a piece of furniture, sentimental value notwithstanding.

    The Merlot Murders Ellen Crosby 2006

  • It was completely out of character for Mia, the dreamy, artistic unmaterial girl, to get worked up over the loss of a piece of furniture, sentimental value notwithstanding.

    The Merlot Murders Ellen Crosby 2006

  • It was completely out of character for Mia, the dreamy, artistic unmaterial girl, to get worked up over the loss of a piece of furniture, sentimental value notwithstanding.

    The Merlot Murders Ellen Crosby 2006

  • It was completely out of character for Mia, the dreamy, artistic unmaterial girl, to get worked up over the loss of a piece of furniture, sentimental value notwithstanding.

    The Merlot Murders Ellen Crosby 2006

  • Spiritual can be defined as having to do with the unmaterial, in this case, the soul.

    Open Letter to Tribune7 « UDreamOfJanie 2006

  • And what a marvel it was, when you stop to think, that in conditions so hard, so utterly prosaic, calculated to clip the wings of generous thought, they maintained themselves in that elevation of sentiment, that supreme estimate of the unmaterial, the ideal factors of life that distinguished them -- in such largeness of mind and of spirit altogether.

    Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

  • It was as if all the dreams, sleeping and waking, of its vivid occupant had taken a visible although unmaterial form and had tapestried the bare room with splendid filmy tissues of rainbow and moonshine.

    Anne of Green Gables 1908

  • It was something spiritual and unmaterial, something, maybe, which had to do with the philosophy he had preached, thought and practised over long years.

    The Money Master, Volume 4. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • It was something spiritual and unmaterial, something, maybe, which had to do with the philosophy he had preached, thought and practised over long years.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • It was something spiritual and unmaterial, something, maybe, which had to do with the philosophy he had preached, thought and practised over long years.

    The Money Master, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

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