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1. immaterial
adjective. ['ˌɪməˈtɪriːəl'] without material form or substance.
Synonyms
- materiality
- incorporeal
- disembodied
- unembodied
- discorporate
- physicalness
- corporality
- corporeality
- spiritual
- bodiless
Antonyms
- immateriality
- incorporeality
- bodied
- unreality
Etymology
- im- (English)
- material (English)
- material (Middle English (1100-1500))
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Rhymes with Immaterial
- antibacterial
- biomaterial
- managerial
- bacterial
- venereal
- imperial
- arterial
- ethereal
- serial
- cereal
Sentences with immaterial
1. Adjective
Whether or not they are in a direct line of command is immaterial.
Quotes about immaterial
1. The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.
- Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
2. Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
- Philo of Alexandria
3. I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.
- Thomas Love Peacock, Gryll Grange
2. immaterial
adjective. ['ˌɪməˈtɪriːəl'] not pertinent to the matter under consideration.
Synonyms
- impertinent
- irrelevant
- extraneous
Antonyms
- abstractness
- impalpability
- irrelevance
- natural
Etymology
- im- (English)
- material (English)
- material (Middle English (1100-1500))
3. immaterial
adjective. ['ˌɪməˈtɪriːəl'] not consisting of matter.
Synonyms
- unreal
- nonphysical
- physicalness
- nonmaterial
- corporeality
- corporality
- insubstantial
- intangible
- unsubstantial
Antonyms
- material
- substantial
- incorporeality
- intangibility
Etymology
- im- (English)
- material (English)
- material (Middle English (1100-1500))
4. immaterial
adjective. ['ˌɪməˈtɪriːəl'] (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other.
Synonyms
- indifferent
Antonyms
- incorporeal
- insubstantiality
Etymology
- im- (English)
- material (English)
- material (Middle English (1100-1500))