Immaterial

Definitions: Immaterial

Immaterial

Adjective

1. Of no importance or relevance especially to a law case; "an objection that is immaterial after the fact".

2. Without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit".

3. Not consisting of matter; "immaterial apparitions"; "ghosts and other immaterial entities".

4. Not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point".

5. Lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other; often followed by "to"; "whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)"; "what others think is altogether indifferent to him".

Date "immaterial" was first used: 1410. (references)

Synonyms: Immaterial

Synonyms: extraneous (adj), impertinent (adj), incorporeal (adj), indifferent (adj), nonmaterial (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: corporeal (adj), material (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Immateriality	Adjective: immaterial, immateriate; incorporeal, incorporal; incorporate, unfleshly; supersensible; asomatous, unextended; unembodied, disembodied; extramundane, unearthly; pneumatoscopic; spiritual. (psychical).
Intellect	Immaterial; endowed with reason.
Unimportance	Adjective: unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance; immaterial; unessential, nonessential; indifferent.
Unsubstantiality	Visionary; (imaginary); immaterial; spectral; dreamy; shadowy; ethereal, airy; cloud built, cloud formed; gossamery, illusory, insubstantial, unreal.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Immaterial Bodies : A Cultural Analysi of Early Russian Films (reference) Immaterial Facts: Freud's Discovery of Psychic Reality and Klein's Development of His Work (reference) Immaterial Objects Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of Art (reference) Immaterial Transcendences: Colonial Subjectivity as Process in Brazil's "Letter" of Discovery (1500) (reference) The Immaterial Murder Case (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Lord Byron	I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	They were both supporting with languor the undefinable burden of the immaterial pleasures.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Trade	Saudi Arabia	Due to accounting procedures used by the Saudi Government, the Department of Zakat and Income Tax imposes taxes even on payments that have not been received, arguing that the fact of non-payment is essentially immaterial in the tax liability determination process. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. Sylphs were allied to gnomes, nymphs and salamanders, which dwelt, respectively, in earth, water and fire, all now insalubrious. Sylphs, like fowls of the air, were male and female, to no purpose, apparently, for if they had progeny they must have nested in accessible places, none of the chicks having ever been seen.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	Finding themselves safely at home, it would be utterly immaterial whether they had ever been abroad.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Immaterial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.97% of the time. "Immaterial" is used about 194 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.97%	192	22,147
Noun (proper)	0.52%	1	339,140
Noun (singular)	0.52%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	194	N/A

Expression using "immaterial": that's immaterial. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "immaterial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i parëndësishëm (dispensable, exiguous, inconsequential, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, light, minor, minute, negligible, nugatory, one horse, paltry, petty, piddling, puny, small, small time, tenuous, tin, trivial, unessential, unimportant), jomaterial (unsubstantial). (various references)

Arabic		‏متهور (audacious, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, brash, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, devil may care, excessive, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-headed, impetuous, impish, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained, unwary), ‏لامادي, ‏غير هام (inconsequential, lightweight, minor, one horse, unimportant), ‏روحي (ghostly, incorporeal, inner, inward, mental, pneumatic, spiritual, unearthly, unworldly). (various references)

Bulgarian		невеществен (bodiless, incorporeal, insubstantial, unsubstantial), нематериален (incorporeal, metaphysical, moral, platonic, unsubstantial), незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), маловажен (footling, futile, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, last, light, minor, nugatory, peddling, pettifogging, petty, puerile, side, small time, trifling, two-by-four, unimportant), безплътен (disembodied, ethereal, unbodied), духовен (clerical, clerkly, ghostly, inner, moral, noetic, otherworldly, platonic, spiritual, unfleshly, unworldly). (various references)

Chinese		非物质. (various references)

Czech		irelevantní (irrelevant), vedlejší (accessory, accidental, adjoining, ancillary, by, collateral, extraneous, incidental, minor, next, next door, off, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary, supporting, ulterior), nepodstatný (desultory, irrelevant, piddling, unimportant), nehmotný (incorporeal, intangible, unsubstantial), nedùležitý (desultory, minor, small, trivial, unimportant). (various references)

Danish		immateriel investering (immaterial investment, intangible investment). (various references)

Dutch		onverschillig (indifferent), lauw (dispassionately, indifferent, lukewarm). (various references)

Esperanto		indiferenta (indifferent). (various references)

Faeroese		líkasælur (apathetic, indifferent). (various references)

Farsi		معنوی (Abstract, Incorporate, Moral, Spiritual, Virtual), مجرد (Absolute, Abstract, Bachelor, Discrete, Lone, Single, Solitary), غیرمادی (Spiritual), جزءی (Imperceptible, Inappreciative, Inconsiderable, Inconspicuous, Little, Minuscule, Minute, Negligible, Nip, Nominal, Paltry, Partial, Peppercorn, Petty, Piddling, Remote, Retail, Rush, Small, Snatch, Trivial, Vain), بی اهمیت (Inconsequential, Inconsiderable, Negligible, Piddling, Unimportant, Unmeaning, Weeny). (various references)

Finnish		ruumiiton (incorporeal), epäolennainen (unessential), asiaton (irrelevant, unjustified), aineeton. (various references)

French		insignifiant, indifférent, immatériel, sans importance (of no great importance), négligeable. (various references)

German		unwesentlich (inessential, inessentially, insignificant, irrelevant, marginal, marginally, negligible, nonessential, unessential, unimportant), unkörperlich (incorporeal), gleichgültig (apathetic, casual, dry, indifferent, indifferently, languorous, nonchalant, nonchalantly, supine, trivial, uncaring, unconcerned, unconcernedly, unheeding, unimportant, uninterested, unresponsive). (various references)

Greek		επουσιώδησ (circumstantial, insubstantial, non essential, nonessential, unessential, unsubstantial), άϋλοσ (disembodied, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible), ασήμαντοσ (fiddling, inconsequential, insignificant, minor, negligible, niggling, nobody, nonessential, nugatory, paltry, piddling, potty, purportless, slight, trifling, trivial, unessential, unimportant). (various references)

Hebrew		לא מש� �", לא חשוב (unimportant). (various references)

Hungarian		lényegtelen (beside the point, beyond the mark, frivolous, inconsequential, inessential, irrelative, irrelevant, marginal, non essential, one horse, to be beside the point, to be of no consequence, unessential, unimportant). (various references)

Indonesian		tak penting (nonessential, unimportant), niskala (abstract). (various references)

Italian		irrilevante (insignificant, peddling, trifling), indifferente (apathetic, apathetical, blasé, callous, cold, cold-hearted, cool, half hearted, impassible, indifferent, listless, lukewarm, nonchalant, unconcerned, uninterested), immateriale (incorporeal, unsubstantial). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		無形 (abstract, intangible, moral, spiritual). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		むけい (abstract, intangible, moral, nonsense, spiritual, unfounded, unsupported). (various references)

Manx		neuheihltagh (incorporal), neuchorpoil (disembodied). (various references)

Norwegian		uvesentlig. (various references)

Pig Latin		immaterialay.(various references)

Portuguese		imaterial (aerial, bodiless, etherial, incorporeity, insubstantial, integer, overgrow, spiritual, unsubstantial). (various references)

Romanian		irelevant (impertinent, inapt, irrelevant, unimportant, unrelated), imaterial (aeriform, aery, ghostly, incorporeal, insubstantial, spiritual, unsubstantial), spiritual (bright, clever, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, ghostly, humorous, humoursome, ingeniously, mental, moral, neat, sacerdotal, sacred, smart, spirited, spiritual, witty), nematerial, neimportant (insignificant, minor, naught, unimportant), neînsemnat (cheap, fractional, inconsequent, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, irrelevant, light, little, minor, modest, negligeable, negligible, paltry, peddling, petty, piddling, piffling, slender, slight, small, trifling, trivial). (various references)

Russian		несущественный (accidental, casual, dispensable, importless, inappreciable, inessential, non essential, nonessential, of no consequence, of no great importance, omissible, unessential, unvital). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		netelesan (incorporeal), nematerijalan (insubstantial), duhovan, beznačajan (fiddling, insignificant, irrelative, irrelevant, nugatory, peddling, pointless, trifling, trivial, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant). (various references)

Spanish		inmaterial (aeriform). (various references)

Swedish		oväsentlig (accidental, importless, inappreciable, incidental, indifferent, inessential, unessential). (various references)

Thai		ไม่ใช่วัตถุ, ไม่สำคัญ (small-time). (various references)

Turkish		ruhani (disembodied, ethereal, ghostlike, ghostly, hiero-, psychic, spiritual, unworldly), maddi olmayan (incorporeal, intangible), davayı etkilemeyen, önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references)

Ukranian		неістотний (accidental, incidental, non essential, slim, unessential, unsubstantial), нематеріальний (incorporeal, inessential, non-substantial). (various references)

Vietnamese		vụn vặt (inconsequential, nugatory, pettifogging, petty), vô hình (bodiless, incorporeal, unbodied), phi vật chất không quan trọng. (various references)

Welsh		annefnyddiol (useless). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Medieval Latin	700-1500	immaterialis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "immaterial": immaterialism, immaterialisms, immaterialist, immaterialists, immaterialities, immateriality, immaterialize, immaterialized, immaterializes, immaterializing. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Immaterial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inmaterial, ommatidial, unmaternal. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "immaterial" (pronounced i'muti"rēul)
8	-m u t i" r ē u l	biomaterial, material.
6	-t i" r ē u l	antibacterial, arterial, bacterial.
5	-i" r ē u l	cereal, ethereal, imperial, managerial, serial, venereal.
4	-r ē u l	actuarial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, ambassadorial, arboreal, Ariel, burial, conspiratorial, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, equatorial, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, gubernatorial, immemorial, industrial, janitorial, magisterial, malarial, memorial, mercurial, ministerial, nomenclatorial, pictorial, professorial, prosecutorial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, terrestrial, territorial, tutorial, vitriol.
3	-ē u l	adverbial, alluvial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, bronchial, centennial, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, convivial, custodial, decennial, entrepreneurial, filial, fluvial, intracranial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, marsupial, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, menial, microbial, millennial, myocardial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, remedial, testimonial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, vestigial.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-m-m-r-t"
	-2 letters: maritime, material.
	-3 letters: airmail, airtime, almemar, amirate, imamate, lemmata, limiter, malmier, maltier, marital, marlite, marmite, martial, miltier, ramilie, trammel.
	-4 letters: aerial, amrita, armlet, atrial, imaret, lamiae, lariat, latria, limier, limmer, mailer, maimer, malate, meatal, milter, mitier, mitral, ramate, ramtil, realia, remail, retail, retial, tailer, tamale, tamari, tammie, tramel.
	-5 letters: aalii, aimer, alarm, alate, alert, altar, alter, areal, ariel, armet, artal, artel, atria, email, irate, laari, lamer, lamia, later, lemma, limit, litai, liter, litre, maile, malar, mamie, maria, mater, merit, metal, miler, milia, mimer, miter, mitre, ramet, ramie, ratal, ratel, realm, reata, relit, remit, retia, riata, talar, taler, tamal, tamer, telia, terai, tiara, tiler, timer, trail, trial.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-m-m-r-t"
	+1 letter: materialism.
	+2 letters: materialisms.
	+3 letters: immaterialism, immaterialist, immateriality, immaterialize, maladminister, materfamilias.
	+4 letters: anticommercial, axisymmetrical, immaterialisms, immaterialists, immaterialized, immaterializes, maladministers.
	+5 letters: antimaterialism, immaterialities, immaterializing, maladministered, materfamiliases, melodramatising, melodramatizing, multilateralism.
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