Definition of immaterial in English:

immaterial

adjective ɪməˈtɪərɪəlˌɪ(m)məˈtɪriəl

1Unimportant under the circumstances; irrelevant.
the difference in our ages is immaterial
Example sentencesExamples
- Wins and losses, for any sport, are ultimately immaterial in considering the value of an athletic program.
- Nonetheless, I do not think we can simply write off as immaterial or irrelevant the views expressed by my interlocutor.
- Far from immaterial, such a question is particularly relevant.
- Hence the delay required to obtain a warrant is usually immaterial.
- The fact that the keeper got a touch as the shot flew past him into the corner of the net was immaterial, given the ferocity of the 23-year old's strike.
- Since, as you say, it's immaterial to the evidence she would introduce, why can't you tell us whether she is or isn't?
- The event, the fourth of its kind, is open to all: age, language, gender and sexual orientation are immaterial.
- She - the scholar - really wanted to believe that; whether or not it was true was almost immaterial.
- That the candidate also had significant executive branch experience and helped remake whole areas of the law was immaterial.
- Whether the public believed him was immaterial, though any public outcry in support of the union message could only be helpful.
- Anyone can, for instance, glue styrofoam cups to a board and it is meaningless, craftless, and immaterial.
- The locality of the registration is immaterial - 90 per cent of people here drive badly or atrociously.
- The fact that their views may not reflect majority views, or indeed are specifically opposed to majority views, is immaterial.
- He's going to have an inconsistency, be it material or immaterial.
- The fact he lost his way then is, to an extent, immaterial.
- So the government says this is all irrelevant and immaterial.
- But as he rightly pointed out, that fact was totally immaterial.
- It is immaterial that they belong to urban or rural area.
- Whether they are right or not about their goal (and I think they were wrong) is immaterial.
- Therefore, while regrettable, the omission in my view is immaterial in these circumstances.
Synonyms
irrelevant, unimportant, inconsequential, insignificant, of no matter/moment, of little account, beside the point, not to the point, neither here nor there, inapposite, not pertinent, not germane
trivial, trifling, petty, superficial
peripheral, tangential, extraneous
2Philosophy
Spiritual, rather than physical.
we have immaterial souls
Example sentencesExamples
- For fear of saying such things, people in the past invented the notion of an immaterial soul, but Schopenhauer will have none of that.
- Even if immaterial souls do not exist, there is good reason not to identify the deaths of people with the deaths of their bodies.
- Epicurus rejected the existence of Platonic forms and an immaterial soul, and he said that the gods have no influence on our lives.
- I thought how ephemeral and immaterial the bond we have with anybody is, and for the most part we are alone to see and witness the world.
- We find new relationships with technologies by rubbing our corporeal bodies up against them, not by crossing a threshold into their immaterial worlds.
Synonyms
intangible, incorporeal, not material, bodiless, unembodied, disembodied, impalpable, ethereal, unsubstantial, insubstantial, airy, aerial
spiritual, ghostly, spectral, wraithlike, transcendental, unearthly, supernatural
rare discarnate, disincarnate, unbodied, phantasmal, phantasmic

Derivatives

immateriality

noun ɪmətɪərɪˈalɪtiˌɪ(m)məˌtɪriˈælədi

‘The immateriality of electronic texts is unsettling, a turn-off.’
Example sentencesExamples
- So you are embracing video's immateriality but also raising the need for materiality.
- Once again matter has disappeared, this time giving way to the immateriality of communication, where everything is discourse and discourse is everything.
- The artist's touch is rendered as something palpable that intrudes on the immateriality of the photographic representation, to which the finger points - from inside the representation, as it were.
- ‘The paintings are constantly changing in different light conditions, effecting a fluctuation between materiality and immateriality,’ she adds.

immaterially

adverb

The ways to build them are to build them immaterially, in the mind.
Example sentencesExamples
- As the window pivots, it tricks the viewer's eye into perceiving the suspended rod as passing immaterially through the frame of the window.
- However, I think the fact that I was teaching aikido was contributing greatly to my company, and also in a broader sense both materially and immaterially to my country.
- Your Honours, that is enough, we hope, to illustrate that 11A and 30B cannot be regarded as immaterially different; they are materially different.
- It can be manipulated as a form of cultural authenticity working materially through both artefacts and their documentation, and immaterially through their connection to local practices.

Origin

Late Middle English (in sense 2): from late Latin immaterialis, from in- 'not' + materialis 'relating to matter'.

Rhymes

arterial, bacterial, cereal, criterial, ethereal, ferial, funereal, imperial, magisterial, managerial, material, ministerial, presbyterial, serial, sidereal, venereal, biomaterial

Definition of immaterial in US English:

immaterial

adjectiveˌɪ(m)məˈtɪriəlˌi(m)məˈtirēəl

1Unimportant under the circumstances; irrelevant.
so long as the band kept the beat, what they played was immaterial
Example sentencesExamples
- But as he rightly pointed out, that fact was totally immaterial.
- Wins and losses, for any sport, are ultimately immaterial in considering the value of an athletic program.
- The fact that their views may not reflect majority views, or indeed are specifically opposed to majority views, is immaterial.
- She - the scholar - really wanted to believe that; whether or not it was true was almost immaterial.
- The fact that the keeper got a touch as the shot flew past him into the corner of the net was immaterial, given the ferocity of the 23-year old's strike.
- The fact he lost his way then is, to an extent, immaterial.
- Whether the public believed him was immaterial, though any public outcry in support of the union message could only be helpful.
- So the government says this is all irrelevant and immaterial.
- Hence the delay required to obtain a warrant is usually immaterial.
- He's going to have an inconsistency, be it material or immaterial.
- Anyone can, for instance, glue styrofoam cups to a board and it is meaningless, craftless, and immaterial.
- The event, the fourth of its kind, is open to all: age, language, gender and sexual orientation are immaterial.
- That the candidate also had significant executive branch experience and helped remake whole areas of the law was immaterial.
- Far from immaterial, such a question is particularly relevant.
- Nonetheless, I do not think we can simply write off as immaterial or irrelevant the views expressed by my interlocutor.
- It is immaterial that they belong to urban or rural area.
- Therefore, while regrettable, the omission in my view is immaterial in these circumstances.
- Whether they are right or not about their goal (and I think they were wrong) is immaterial.
- Since, as you say, it's immaterial to the evidence she would introduce, why can't you tell us whether she is or isn't?
- The locality of the registration is immaterial - 90 per cent of people here drive badly or atrociously.
Synonyms
irrelevant, unimportant, inconsequential, insignificant, of no matter, of no moment, of little account, beside the point, not to the point, neither here nor there, inapposite, not pertinent, not germane
2Philosophy
Spiritual, rather than physical.
we have immaterial souls
Example sentencesExamples
- Epicurus rejected the existence of Platonic forms and an immaterial soul, and he said that the gods have no influence on our lives.
- I thought how ephemeral and immaterial the bond we have with anybody is, and for the most part we are alone to see and witness the world.
- We find new relationships with technologies by rubbing our corporeal bodies up against them, not by crossing a threshold into their immaterial worlds.
- Even if immaterial souls do not exist, there is good reason not to identify the deaths of people with the deaths of their bodies.
- For fear of saying such things, people in the past invented the notion of an immaterial soul, but Schopenhauer will have none of that.
Synonyms
intangible, incorporeal, not material, bodiless, unembodied, disembodied, impalpable, ethereal, unsubstantial, insubstantial, airy, aerial

Usage

Immaterial and irrelevant are familiar in legal, especially courtroom, use. Immaterial means ‘unimportant because not adding anything to the point.’ Irrelevant, a much more common word, means ‘beside the point, not speaking to the point.’ Courts have long ceased to demand precise distinctions, and evidence is often objected to as “immaterial, irrelevant, and incompetent (‘offered by a witness who is not qualified to offer it’).”

Origin

Late Middle English (in immaterial (sense 2)): from late Latin immaterialis, from in- ‘not’ + materialis ‘relating to matter’.

单词	immaterial
释义	Definition of immaterial in English: immaterial adjective ɪməˈtɪərɪəlˌɪ(m)məˈtɪriəl 1Unimportant under the circumstances; irrelevant. the difference in our ages is immaterial Example sentencesExamples Wins and losses, for any sport, are ultimately immaterial in considering the value of an athletic program. Nonetheless, I do not think we can simply write off as immaterial or irrelevant the views expressed by my interlocutor. Far from immaterial, such a question is particularly relevant. Hence the delay required to obtain a warrant is usually immaterial. The fact that the keeper got a touch as the shot flew past him into the corner of the net was immaterial, given the ferocity of the 23-year old's strike. Since, as you say, it's immaterial to the evidence she would introduce, why can't you tell us whether she is or isn't? The event, the fourth of its kind, is open to all: age, language, gender and sexual orientation are immaterial. She - the scholar - really wanted to believe that; whether or not it was true was almost immaterial. That the candidate also had significant executive branch experience and helped remake whole areas of the law was immaterial. Whether the public believed him was immaterial, though any public outcry in support of the union message could only be helpful. Anyone can, for instance, glue styrofoam cups to a board and it is meaningless, craftless, and immaterial. The locality of the registration is immaterial - 90 per cent of people here drive badly or atrociously. The fact that their views may not reflect majority views, or indeed are specifically opposed to majority views, is immaterial. He's going to have an inconsistency, be it material or immaterial. The fact he lost his way then is, to an extent, immaterial. So the government says this is all irrelevant and immaterial. But as he rightly pointed out, that fact was totally immaterial. It is immaterial that they belong to urban or rural area. Whether they are right or not about their goal (and I think they were wrong) is immaterial. Therefore, while regrettable, the omission in my view is immaterial in these circumstances. Synonyms irrelevant, unimportant, inconsequential, insignificant, of no matter/moment, of little account, beside the point, not to the point, neither here nor there, inapposite, not pertinent, not germane trivial, trifling, petty, superficial peripheral, tangential, extraneous 2Philosophy Spiritual, rather than physical. we have immaterial souls Example sentencesExamples For fear of saying such things, people in the past invented the notion of an immaterial soul, but Schopenhauer will have none of that. Even if immaterial souls do not exist, there is good reason not to identify the deaths of people with the deaths of their bodies. Epicurus rejected the existence of Platonic forms and an immaterial soul, and he said that the gods have no influence on our lives. I thought how ephemeral and immaterial the bond we have with anybody is, and for the most part we are alone to see and witness the world. We find new relationships with technologies by rubbing our corporeal bodies up against them, not by crossing a threshold into their immaterial worlds. Synonyms intangible, incorporeal, not material, bodiless, unembodied, disembodied, impalpable, ethereal, unsubstantial, insubstantial, airy, aerial spiritual, ghostly, spectral, wraithlike, transcendental, unearthly, supernatural rare discarnate, disincarnate, unbodied, phantasmal, phantasmic Derivatives immateriality noun ɪmətɪərɪˈalɪtiˌɪ(m)məˌtɪriˈælədi ‘The immateriality of electronic texts is unsettling, a turn-off.’ Example sentencesExamples So you are embracing video's immateriality but also raising the need for materiality. Once again matter has disappeared, this time giving way to the immateriality of communication, where everything is discourse and discourse is everything. The artist's touch is rendered as something palpable that intrudes on the immateriality of the photographic representation, to which the finger points - from inside the representation, as it were. ‘The paintings are constantly changing in different light conditions, effecting a fluctuation between materiality and immateriality,’ she adds. immaterially adverb The ways to build them are to build them immaterially, in the mind. Example sentencesExamples As the window pivots, it tricks the viewer's eye into perceiving the suspended rod as passing immaterially through the frame of the window. However, I think the fact that I was teaching aikido was contributing greatly to my company, and also in a broader sense both materially and immaterially to my country. Your Honours, that is enough, we hope, to illustrate that 11A and 30B cannot be regarded as immaterially different; they are materially different. It can be manipulated as a form of cultural authenticity working materially through both artefacts and their documentation, and immaterially through their connection to local practices. Origin Late Middle English (in sense 2): from late Latin immaterialis, from in- 'not' + materialis 'relating to matter'. Rhymes arterial, bacterial, cereal, criterial, ethereal, ferial, funereal, imperial, magisterial, managerial, material, ministerial, presbyterial, serial, sidereal, venereal, biomaterial Definition of immaterial in US English: immaterial adjectiveˌɪ(m)məˈtɪriəlˌi(m)məˈtirēəl 1Unimportant under the circumstances; irrelevant. so long as the band kept the beat, what they played was immaterial Example sentencesExamples But as he rightly pointed out, that fact was totally immaterial. Wins and losses, for any sport, are ultimately immaterial in considering the value of an athletic program. The fact that their views may not reflect majority views, or indeed are specifically opposed to majority views, is immaterial. She - the scholar - really wanted to believe that; whether or not it was true was almost immaterial. The fact that the keeper got a touch as the shot flew past him into the corner of the net was immaterial, given the ferocity of the 23-year old's strike. The fact he lost his way then is, to an extent, immaterial. Whether the public believed him was immaterial, though any public outcry in support of the union message could only be helpful. So the government says this is all irrelevant and immaterial. Hence the delay required to obtain a warrant is usually immaterial. He's going to have an inconsistency, be it material or immaterial. Anyone can, for instance, glue styrofoam cups to a board and it is meaningless, craftless, and immaterial. The event, the fourth of its kind, is open to all: age, language, gender and sexual orientation are immaterial. That the candidate also had significant executive branch experience and helped remake whole areas of the law was immaterial. Far from immaterial, such a question is particularly relevant. Nonetheless, I do not think we can simply write off as immaterial or irrelevant the views expressed by my interlocutor. It is immaterial that they belong to urban or rural area. Therefore, while regrettable, the omission in my view is immaterial in these circumstances. Whether they are right or not about their goal (and I think they were wrong) is immaterial. Since, as you say, it's immaterial to the evidence she would introduce, why can't you tell us whether she is or isn't? The locality of the registration is immaterial - 90 per cent of people here drive badly or atrociously. Synonyms irrelevant, unimportant, inconsequential, insignificant, of no matter, of no moment, of little account, beside the point, not to the point, neither here nor there, inapposite, not pertinent, not germane 2Philosophy Spiritual, rather than physical. we have immaterial souls Example sentencesExamples Epicurus rejected the existence of Platonic forms and an immaterial soul, and he said that the gods have no influence on our lives. I thought how ephemeral and immaterial the bond we have with anybody is, and for the most part we are alone to see and witness the world. We find new relationships with technologies by rubbing our corporeal bodies up against them, not by crossing a threshold into their immaterial worlds. Even if immaterial souls do not exist, there is good reason not to identify the deaths of people with the deaths of their bodies. For fear of saying such things, people in the past invented the notion of an immaterial soul, but Schopenhauer will have none of that. Synonyms intangible, incorporeal, not material, bodiless, unembodied, disembodied, impalpable, ethereal, unsubstantial, insubstantial, airy, aerial Usage Immaterial and irrelevant are familiar in legal, especially courtroom, use. Immaterial means ‘unimportant because not adding anything to the point.’ Irrelevant, a much more common word, means ‘beside the point, not speaking to the point.’ Courts have long ceased to demand precise distinctions, and evidence is often objected to as “immaterial, irrelevant, and incompetent (‘offered by a witness who is not qualified to offer it’).” Origin Late Middle English (in immaterial (sense 2)): from late Latin immaterialis, from in- ‘not’ + materialis ‘relating to matter’.
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