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[ im-uh-teer-ee-uhl ] / ˌɪm əˈtɪər i əl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR immaterial ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveof no essential consequence; unimportant. not pertinent; irrelevant. not material; incorporeal; spiritual. Origin of immaterialFirst recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word immāteriālis.See im-2, material OTHER WORDS FROM immaterialim·ma·te·ri·al·ly, adverbim·ma·te·ri·al·ness, nounWords nearby immaterialimmane, immanence, immanent, immanentism, Immanuel, immaterial, immaterialism, immateriality, immaterialize, immature, immature cataract Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for immaterialIt is immaterial if the infidel is a combatant or a civilian. The CIA’s Wrong: Arming Rebels Works|Christopher Dickey|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST The lack of evidence for HGH as an effective performance enhancer is just as immaterial as its illegality. Major League Baseball’s Planned Suspensions Are Already a Bust|David Roth|June 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST Whether blame is assigned to the failed follower or the failed leader is immaterial. The Truth About Women in Combat|David Frum|March 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST So as long as a lethal strike passes muster in constitutional terms, the location of the target is immaterial. White Paper Suggests U.S. Could Launch Drones Into U.S. Cities|Kal Raustiala|February 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
“Source” ends up feeling like an essentially virtual, Platonic, immaterial object. Vanishingly Massive|Blake Gopnik|October 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST If the colour of the heroine's eyes and the tint of her hair are immaterial to her career, omit such hackneyed data. The Lure of the Pen|Flora Klickmann It is immaterial whether it is payable in the place where it is drawn or not. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7|Various All of which would be irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial if this were not a legal story. Tutt and Mr. Tutt|Arthur Train How would that be possible if consciousness were an immaterial entity, independent of these anatomical organs? The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century|Ernst Haeckel That is immaterial; the defense could have demanded the same thing. The Awakening|Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
British Dictionary definitions for immaterial
adjectiveof no real importance; inconsequential not formed of matter; incorporeal; spiritual Derived forms of immaterialimmateriality or immaterialness, nounimmaterially, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to immaterialunimportant, trivial, meaningless, extraneous, inconsequential, incorporeal, nonmaterial, foreign, impertinent, inapplicable, inappropriate, inconsiderate, insignificant, trifling, unnecessary, inconsiderable, inessential, inapposite, irrelative, aerial |