Matter

Definition: Matter

Matter

Noun

1. That which has mass and occupies space; "an atom is the smallest indivisible unit of matter".

2. A vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well".

3. Some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police".

4. A problem; "is anything the matter?".

5. (used with negation) having consequence; "they were friends and it was no matter who won the games".

6. Written works (especially in books or magazines); "he always took some reading matter with him on the plane".

Verb

1. Have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter much".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "matter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Matter \Mat"ter\, noun. [from Old English expression matere, French mati[`e]re, from the Latin expression materia; perhaps akin to Latin mater mother. Compare to Mother, Madeira, Material.]. (references)

Physics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Matter

Business

Noun: business, occupation, employment; pursuit; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case.

Eventuality

Noun: eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts, just the facts; phenomenon; advent.

Idea

Subject, subject matter; matter, theme, gr/noemata/gr, topic, what it is about, thesis, text, business, affair, matter in hand, argument; motion, resolution; head, chapter; case, point; proposition, theorem; field of inquiry; moot point, problem; (question).

Importance

Verb: be important; Adjective:, be somebody, be something; import, signify, matter, boot, be an object; carry weight; (influence); make a figure; (repute); be in the ascendant, come to the front, lead the way, take the lead, play first fiddle, throw all else into the shade; lie at the root of; deserve notice, merit notice, be worthy of notice, be worthy of regard, be worthy of consideration.

Printing

Boldface, capitals, caps., catchword; composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick; italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype; lower case, upper case; make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, point system: -/, -/,, point, etc.; press room, press work; reglet, roman; running head, scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay.

Substantiality

Noun: substantiality, hypostasis; person, being, thing, object, article, item; something, a being, an existence; creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum; matter; corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part.

Uncleanness

Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.

Crosswords: Matter

But no matter. Next time I'll just have to give them a stronger dose (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

It doesn't matter what I believe (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

What's the matter with that girl (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

Oh, you didn't do anything to meor any other girl for that matter. (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

Helen's a flesh and blood woman and you're never there. It was only a matter of time (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël)

I know, no matter what (No Matter What; performing artist: Boyzone)

How many came before it really doesn't matter (It Don't Matter To Me; performing artist: Bread)

It doesn't matter if they won't accept you (Doesn't Really Matter; performing artist: Janet)

Feelin' like a white, I think it doesn't matter (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited)

And my home's in Alabama, no matter where I lay my head ("My Home's in Alabama"; performing artist: Alabama)

It doesn't matter if you win or lose until you lose. (references; author: unknown)

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens. (references; author: unknown)

Remember, your relatives had no choice in the matter, either. (references; author: unknown)

Life lesson: No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. (references; author: unknown)

No matter what you want to do, there's always something else that has to be done first. (references; author: unknown)

Matter Doesn't Matter (1973)

In the Matter of Kenneth (1973)

Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter (1972)

Abortion: Public Issue or Private Matter (1971)

What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)

Doesn't Really Matter (performing artist: Janet Jackson)

No Matter What Shape (performing artist: The T-Bones)

WHAT'S THE MATTER BABY (IS IT HURTING YOU)  (performing artist: Timi Yuro )

No Matter What (Party All Night) (performing artist: Toya)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Printed Matter in Africa (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Printed Matter Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Printed Matter in Peru (reference)

• The 2002 World Market Forecasts for Imported Printed Matter (reference)

• The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Printed Matter (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• When Words Matter Most: Thoughtful Words and Deeds to Express Just the Right Thing at the Just the Right Time (reference)

• Report of the Board, in the matter of the Ontario Energy Board Act, R.S.O. 1980, chapter 332 and in the matter of a review by the Ontario Energy Board of the expansion of the natural gas system in Ontario : before J.C. Butler, vice-chairman and presiding (reference)

• The Poker MBA: Winning in Business No Matter What Cards You're Dealt (reference)

• Aquatic Ecosystems: Interactivity of Dissolved Organic Matter (Aquatic Ecology) (reference)

• Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Physical Review B Condensed Matter And Materials Physics (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• A Matter of Taste (reference)

• Randy Travis Live - It Was Just a Matter of Time (reference)

• A Matter of Principle (reference)

• Matter of Heart (reference)

• Time Out & Manners Matter (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Live - It Was Just a Matter of Time [LIVE] (reference)

• Mind over Matter (reference)

• Spirit Matter (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

PET scans at the level of the basal ganglia of a normal control (1) case 1 at the start (2) and after treatment with AZT (3). In (1) there is a homogeneous pattern of glucose metabolism in the frontal, temporal and occipital cortex and in the subcortical grey matter. At the onset of treatment with AZT (2) there is a heterogeneous pattern of glucose metabolism with a relative reduction in the posterior temporal and occipital regions and the thalamus. Thirteen weeks after treatment with AZT, the abnormal pattern has partly resolved (3). All images are scaled from zero to 100% of the maximum activity within the slice (scale shown on right of figure). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Position emission tomography (PET) of cerebral glucose utilization in a normal individual. This tomogram is through the upper part of the cerebral hemisphere. Note discrimination between gray matter (yellow-red color) and white matter (green-blue color) which uses less glucose. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Marsh land that has been converted to pasture by cutting canals, building levees , and pumping out water. Exposure to air caused oxidation of organic matter in soil which led to rapid subsidence. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Particle impactor to study atmospheric particulate matter; Aiken condensation nuclei counter, and Dupont humidity sensor. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Marine snow, detrital/particulate matter surrounding two adjacent pipes on reef. This configuration provided more habitat value than two single pipes laying apart. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Agricultural engineer Stanley Anthony inspects trash removed from cotton during the ginning process. About 100 pounds of foreign matter is cleaned from cotton for every 500 pounds of lint ginned. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Better safe than sorry : it's a matter of life or death. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

World War - 1939-1945 - Medical and Sanitary Affairs : A Matter of Life and Death... - booklet about the Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A matter of direction. Credit: Library of Congress.

Truly I find small difficulty here, the matter being even a child's affair for simpleness. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And if we shall not have corrected the transgression (or, in the event of our being out of the realm, if our justiciar shall not have corrected it) within forty days, reckoning from the time it has been intimated to us (or to our justiciar, if we should be out of the realm), the four barons aforesaid shall refer that matter to the rest of the five and twenty barons, and those five and twenty barons shall, together with the community of the whole realm, distrain and distress us in all possible ways, namely, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, and in any other way they can, until redress has been obtained as they deem fit, saving harmless our own person, and the persons of our queen and children; and when redress has been obtained, they shall resume their old relations towards us. (reference)

But there are but few miscarriages which bring the matter to this state. (Second Treatise of Government)

In May 1785, a committee of Congress made a report recommending an alteration in the Articles of Confederation, but no action was taken on it, and it was left to the State Legislatures to proceed in the matter. (reference)

The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital. (reference)

Adequate notice of the date on which the matter will be considered shall be given to the Government in question. (reference)

In such a matter we can only go step by step, but we must begin now. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

There was no occasion to press the matter farther

It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death

The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into its face to see what was the matter with it.

In this matter of Hester Prynne, there was neither irritation nor irksomeness

It has taken you, no matter how or where, by any portion whatever of your thought which was trailing, through any absence of mind

No matter how many or how foul the sins if only you repent of them they will be forgiven you.

Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.

No matter how clever, how loving a man might be with earth and growing things, he could not survive if he were not also a good shopkeeper

This is the court style, and I found it to be more than matter of form

Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Infant monitors, no matter what type, need to be more reliable. (references)

The isolation of the virus in a matter of months was remarkable. (references)

No documentation of signs establishing more than one white matter lesion. (references)

Business

Abersan, a local company,has been working intensively on the matter. (references)

Architectural supervision is a matter to be agreed between the investor and the architect. (references)

The dissolved union appealed to a court, which upheld the appeal and returned the matter to the TFCA. (references)

Children

Uganda

Cases frequently were reported in newspapers, but a payment to the girl's parents often ended the matter. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tajikistan

The congregation refused to pay as a matter of principle. (references)

Gabon

Libel can be either a criminal offense or a civil matter. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

In most cases, registration is a pro forma matter. (references)

Romania

The matter is then decided by an administrative court. (references)

Bahrain

Arbitration procedures are largely a contractual matter. (references)

Human Rights

Belize

At year's end, the commission continued to conduct hearings on the matter. (references)

Morocco

The Inspector General of the National Security Police investigated the matter. (references)

Guatemala

The Constitution prohibits exile, and it is not practiced as a matter of policy. (references)

Minorities

Egypt

The law is silent on the matter of the acceptable age of conversion. (references)

Tajikistan

Some of these cases appeared to be a matter of retaliation by returned ethnic Tajik refugees for injuries done to them by ethnic Uzbeks during the civil war. (references)

Bhutan

Bilateral negotiations on repatriation issues in November failed to arrive at an agreement, and the matter was deferred to a proposed future session of ministerial-level talks. (references)

Political Economy

Denmark

They do not have their own staffs (nor, for that matter, do parliamentary committees), only secretarial assistance. (references)

Sudan

At a June 2000 court session, a decision on the matter was postponed until August 2000. The case still was unresolved at year's end. (references)

PORTUGAL

Nevertheless, as a practical matter, foreign firms bidding on EU-funded projects have found that having an EU or Portuguese partner enhances their prospects. (references)

Political Rights

Zimbabwe

In 2000 the High Court ruled that ZANU-PF could not spend the MDC share until the matter was resolved. (references)

Egypt

The ruling National Democratic Party dominates the 454-seat People's Assembly, the 264-seat Shura Council, local governments, the mass media, labor, and the large public sector, and controls the licensing of new political parties, newspapers, and private organizations to such an extent that, as a practical matter, citizens do not have a meaningful ability to change their government. (references)

Trade

Bahrain

However, arbitration procedures are a contractual matter. (references)

Travel

Saudi Arabia

Imported and domestic audiovisual media and reading matter are censored. (references)

Russia

However, the Embassy recommends that people declare the entire amount of cash they are importing no matter how small. (references)

Uae

These bans, which are rigidly enforced, prevent the individual from leaving the UAE for any reason until the matter is resolved. (references)

Women

Iceland

Violence against women continued to be a matter of concern. (references)

Central African Republic

Spousal abuse is considered a civil matter unless the injury is severe. (references)

Kenya

Police typically view violence against women as a family matter, not a crime. (references)

Worker Rights

Mexico

Following the hearing, the U.S. NAO issued a report on the matter and requested consultations. (references)

India

It may start with consent and later become a matter of force and deception, or the victim may be kidnaped. (references)

Vanuatu

However, unions and management generally reach agreement on wages without having to refer the matter to arbitration. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "matter": a hanging matter ♦ a matter of ♦ a matter of course ♦ a matter of life and death ♦ a matter of moment ♦ a matter of opinion ♦ a matter of urgency ♦ a mere matter of form ♦ a very important matter ♦ a very secondary matter ♦ advertising matter ♦ albumenous matter ♦ and there the matter ended ♦ as a matter of course ♦ as a matter of fact ♦ as a matter of privacy ♦ as a matter of routine ♦ as a matter of survival ♦ as if nothing was the matter ♦ back matter ♦ brute matter ♦ business matter ♦ centered matter ♦ classified matter ♦ coloring matter ♦ colouring matter ♦ complicated matter ♦ conservation of matter ♦ core of the matter ♦ criminal matter ♦ crux of the matter ♦ current matter ♦ Dark Matter Search ♦ dead matter ♦ delicate matter ♦ displayed matter ♦ dispose of a matter ♦ does not matter a farthing ♦ dry matter ♦ dry solid matter ♦ end matter ♦ energy imparted to matter ♦ faecal matter ♦ fecal matter ♦ flammable matter ♦ flavouring matter ♦ for that matter ♦ front matter ♦ get a matter square ♦ go into the matter ♦ gray matter ♦ grey matter ♦ hanging matter ♦ how is it? what is the reason? what's the matter ♦ in the matter of ♦ inanimate matter ♦ incendiary matter ♦ infectious matter ♦ inflammable matter ♦ inorganic matter ♦ insignificant matter ♦ internal matter ♦ it does not matter ♦ it doesn't matter ♦ it is a matter of a few days ♦ it is for him to move first in the matter ♦ it is no laughing matter ♦ it makes no matter ♦ it's a matter of life and death ♦ it's a matter of necessity ♦ it's a matter of taste ♦ it's no trifling matter ♦ justified matter ♦ law of conservation of matter ♦ leave this matter ♦ legal matter ♦ let the matter rest! ♦ Live matter ♦ look in the matter ♦ look into a matter ♦ matter for discussion ♦ matter fundamental ♦ matter in bar ♦ matter in dispute ♦ matter in hand ♦ matter little or nothing ♦ matter of concern ♦ matter of conscience ♦ matter of course ♦ matter of course approach ♦ matter of detail ♦ matter of fact ♦ matter of fact man ♦ matter of faith ♦ matter of form ♦ matter of indifference ♦ matter of judgment ♦ matter of law ♦ matter of life and death ♦ matter of opinion ♦ matter of record. Additional references.

Beginning with "matter": matter-are, matter-bleaching, matter-dominated, matter-of-course, matter-of-face, matter-of-fact, matter-off-act, matter-of-fact prosaic, matter-of-factly, matter-of-factness, matter-of-fact-ness, matter-or-fact, matter-she, matter-then, matter-would.

Ending with "matter": anti-matter.

Afrikaans

saak (affair, business, business deal, case), ding (affair, business, business deal, case), affêring (affair, business, business deal, case), affêre (affair, business, business deal, case). (various references)

Albanian

material (carnal, copy, fleshly, material, physical, stock, stuff, worldly), thelb (backbone, burden, core, crux, essence, essentiality, gist, guts, heart, hinge, kernel, marrow, marrowbone, nub, pith, point, soul, substance, sum, tenor), shkas (lapse, motive, slide, slip, slip down, slither), rast (case, chance, circumstance, event, handle, happening, instance, occasion, piece, place, possibility, scope), qelb (pus), puna (occasions), përmbajtje (check, constraint, content, contents, demureness, deterrence, equanimity, incorporation, moderation, repression, reservation, reserve, restraint, reticence, substance, suppression, table of contents, temperance, tenor), lëndë (copy, course, material, stuff, subject, substance, theme), arsye (account, argument, cause, consideration, justice, justification, motivation, motive, nous, occasion, place, plea, reason, sense, spring, why), arësye (account, argument, cause, consideration, justice, justification, motivation, motive, nous, occasion, place, plea, reason, sense, spring, why), çështje (affair, business, case, cause, concern, count, issue, point, problem, question, shebang, subject). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هم (care, concern, reck, solicitude, their, them, they, those, trouble, worry), ‏شىء (contraption, object, something, thing, thingummy), ‏شىء هام, ‏أخذ أهمية, ‏أمر (affair, behest, charge, command, decree, dictate, direct, direction, enjoin, fiat, give an order, instruct, instruction, intimation, officer, ordain, order, ordinance, prescribe, prescript, prescription, sound, thing, warn, word), ‏الهيولى (chaos), ‏جوهر (core, effect, essence, essential nature, gist, immanence, pith, principle, quiddity, quintessence, root, soul, substance, taproot), ‏باب (affair, chapter, door, entry, field, gate, hatch, issue, kind, port, rubric, section, sort, source, subject), ‏نص مطبوع, امر (affair, to command), ‏مادة (article, item, material, materiality, substance), ‏مطلب (demand, question, request, requirement), ‏مسألة (affair, case, issue, problem, proposition, question, thing), ‏مسألة هامة, ‏مسالة, ‏موضوع (item, motif, object, question, subject, theme, topic), شأن (affair), ‏قضية (affair, business, case, cause, issue, question). (various references)

Bulgarian 

от значение съм (mean), имам значение (count, cut, import, mean, signify, tell, weigh), значение (account, amount, consequence, consideration, denotation, hang, heft, import, importance, intention, interest, magnitude, meaning, message, moment, notability, object, pith, sense, significance, signification, tenor, value, weight), материал (material, medium, stuff), материя (fabric, material, stuff, substance, textile, wear), набор (class, composition, draft, draught, frill, furbelow, gathers, intake, pucker, quilling, ruck, ruffle, shirr, skirt, typesetting), набран текст, нещо (affair, anything, aught, do, something, summat, thing), нещо писано, изпражнения (dejecta, dirt, evacuations, excrement, faeces, ordure, rejectamenta, slops, soil, stools, waste), нещо не наред, същина (content, core, distillation, essence, gist, guts, heart, inbeing, inside, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, point, quiddity, substance, sum and substance, thisness), вещество (agent, material, stuff, substance), въпрос (affair, interrogation, interrogatory, problem, question, subject matter, thing, topic), гной (discharge, purulence, pus), гноя (fester, gather, rankle, run, suppurate), работа (affair, avocation, berth, billet, business, char, concern, dealings, do, employ, employment, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, lay, line, occasions, occupation, operation, part, performance, place, ploy, proceedings, proposition, run, running, service, shebang, shop, show, situation, thing, undertaking, work, working, workmanship), секрет (discharge, emission, secretion), смисъл (amount, effect, hang, import, intent, intention, message, point, sense, signification, sound, spirit, use), урина (urine), нещо печатано. (various references)

Chinese 

问题 (Issue, Problem, Question), 物質 , 物 (object, thing), 事情 (affair, business, thing), 事 (affair, item, thing, work), 務 (affair, business). (various references)

Croatian

radi (What is the matter). (various references)

Czech

záležitost (affair, business, concern, question, thing), záležet (consist), předmìt (article, item, object, subject, thing), látka (cloth, fabric, material, matting, stuff, substance, suiting), hnisat (discharge, fester, suppurate, ulcerate), hnis (discharge, pus), hmota (concrete, mass, material, substance), dùvod (argument, cause, grounds, occasion, reason). (various references)

Danish

stof (stuff, substance), anliggende (affair, business, business deal, case). (various references)

Dutch

zaak (affair, boutique, business, business deal, case, shop, store, trade, transaction), ding (affair, article, business, business deal, case, object, thing, thingamajig, whatchamacallit), affaire (affair, business, business deal, case), aangelegenheid (account, affair, business, business deal, case, concern, interest). (various references)

Esperanto

materio, substanco (stuff, substance), kazo (afair, affair, case), afero (affair, business, business deal, case). (various references)

Faeroese

mál (affair, aim, business, business deal, case, goal, idiom, language, problem, purpose, speech, target, tongue, trouble), viðurskifti (affair, business, business deal, case, circumstance, relation), tilfar (cloth, data, material, stuff, substance), tilburður (affair, business, business deal, case, scene), søk (affair, business, business deal, case), rættarmál (affair, business, business deal, case), fall (affair, case, fall), evni (stuff, subject, substance, theme, topic). (various references)

Finnish

asia (affair, business, business deal, case, cause, concern, errand, message, thing). (various references)

French

substance (material), matière (material), affaire. (various references)

Frisian

matearje, oangelegenheid (affair, business, business deal, case), kwestje (affair, business, business deal, case), gefal (affair, case), fal (affair, case, fall), affearen (affair, business, business deal, case). (various references)

German

Sache (affair, article of property, business, business deal, case, cause, concern, job, object, question, subject, thing), Angelegenheit (affair, business, business deal, case, concern, issue, pidgin), Materie (subject matter, substance), Material (blurb, data, evidence, makings, material, ordnance, stuff), Grund (account, bed, bottom, call, cause, causing, depths, earth, field, foundation, ground, grounds, land, motive, occasion, reason, score, soil, subject, territorially), Gegenstand (article, item, object, subject, theme, thing, topic), Ding (affair, article, business, business deal, case, Dong, entity, gadget, item, job, object, thing). (various references)

Greek 

ύλη (copy, material, stuff), υπόθεση (affair, assumption, business, case, cause, concern, conjecture, hypothesis, premise, presumption, shebang, supposition), ουσία (being, entity, essence, gist, marrow, nature, nub, pith, pithiness, quiddity, quintessence, savor, savour, substance). (various references)

Hawaiian

në të vërtetë (actually, as a matter of fact, in fact, indeed). (various references)

Hebrew 

להיות חשוב, שעיה (affair, consideration, look, thought), עצם (essence, object, substance, thing), עסק (affair, business, concern, deal, relation, shebang, trade), ענין (affair, business, case, concern, context, interest, shebang, stake, subject, thing), חומר (compound, element, ingredient, material, mortar, sermon, stuff, subject, substance), דבר (affair, anything, message, object, saying, something, thing, word), גוף (being, body, corpus, element, essence, person, self, trunk). (various references)

Hungarian

dolog (affair, business, business deal, case, chose, clinker, close call, crackerjack, dishonour, job, labor, labour, lash-up, ledger, mite, number, object, quickie, quicky, shebang, shocker, startler, stuff, the cards were stacked against me, thing, work), anyag (clinker, filler, leach, material, stuff, substance, substrata, substrate, substratum, theme), ügy (affair, business, business deal, case, case at issue, cause, go, issue, it is a case in point, proceeding, proposition, shebang, thing, to come out badly of an affair), váladék (eduction, excretion, ooze, phlegm, secretion), tartalom (amount, capacity, content, intension, plot, purport, subject-matter, substance), szedendő anyag, szedés (at press, harvest, keyboarding, picking, setting, typesetting), lényeg (burden, elixir, entity, essence, essential, gist, inbeing, kernel, main point, main thing, meat, nature, nub, nuclei, nucleus, pivot, point, quiddity, substance, tenor, the long and the short), kézirat (handwriting, manuscript, script), kérdés (issue, leader, leading question, point, problem, quaere, query, question, score, teaser), genny (crappy, pus, sanies), baj (bane, bother, complaint, discomfort, grief, harm, malady, misadventure, mischief, mischievousness, misery, misfortune, need, pits, predicament, trouble, woe). (various references)

Icelandic

lesefni (reading matter), það var ekkert (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome), það gerir ekkert til (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references)

Indonesian

menggumam (suppress), hal (case, fact, instance, item, situation), bicara (meaningful, speak, state opinion), barang-barang (belongings, commodities), bahan (data, datum, material, object, stuff), bab (caption, chapter). (various references)

Italian

materia (material, stock, stuff, subject, substance, theme, thing), faccenda (affair, business, business deal, case, concern, housework, job, shebang, show), affare (affair, bargain, business, business deal, case, concern, concernment, deal, job, problem, show, snip, thing, transaction), caso (accidence, accident, affair, alternative, case, chance, connection, connexion, event, haphazard, hazard, incident, instance, occasion, occurrence, possibility, random). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

事項 (facts, item), 事 (business, circumstances, experience, fact, reason, thing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎ (affair, be suspicious of, case, ceremony, connection, deception, deed, distrust, doubt, false, falsehood, favor, friendly relations, friendship, goodwill, honour, imitation, intimacy, justice, kindness, lie, morality, relation, righteousness, rule, skill), たね (cause, copy, inside story, issue, kind, material, offspring, paternal blood, pip, quality, secret, seed, source, subject, theme, tone, trick, variety), ないよう (contents, detail, import, internal use, private business, subject, substance), しつりょう (mass, room rent), ことがら (affair, circumstance, thing), こと (ancient city, business, circumstances, covering up, experience, fact, former capital, glossing over, Koto, reason, thing), けん (and, authority, bayonet, blade, bond, case, certificate, circle, clock hand, concurrently, coupon, economy, emperor, health, heaven, in addition, item, prefecture, range, sabre, sphere, stick-to-itiveness, sting, strength, sword, tendon, the right, ticket), じしょう (calling oneself, following chapter, phenomenon, second in command, self-styled, time bell, would-be), じこう (automobile industry, earhole, earwax, facts, fad, fashion, imperial tutor, inside the ear, item, season, statute of limitations, time of the year). (various references)

Korean 

사정 (Assessing, Ejaculation). (various references)

Lombard

affari (affair, business, business deal, case). (various references)

Malay

perkara (affair, business, business deal, case), hal (affair, case). (various references)

Manx

red (article, item, object, thing), oyr (cause, incentive, motive, occasion, reason), nhee (concern, fact, item, object, thing), madyral. (various references)

Norwegian

anliggende (affair, business, business deal, case). (various references)

Papiamen

materia, kos (affair, article, business, business deal, case, object, thing), kestion (affair, business, business deal, case), kaso (affair, business, business deal, case), asuntu (affair, business, business deal, case), afèr (affair, business, business deal, case). (various references)

Pig Latin

attermay.(various references)

Polish

sprawa (affair, business, business deal, case), afera (affair, business, business deal, case). (various references)

Portuguese

matéria (body, flesh, material, substance, theme, thing), substância (body, essence, gist, material, metals, purport, stuff, substance), questão (affair, broil, brush, business, business deal, case, difference, disagreement, dissemblance, earmark, fortuity, issue, litigation, proposition, quarrel, query, question, scene, strife, wrangle), coisa (affair, article, business, business deal, case, object, shebang, stuff, thing, wing), caso (accident, affair, business, business deal, case, colly, event, happening, incident, instance), assunto (affair, article, business, business deal, case, concernment, dead set, full stop, material, motif, object, palaver, point, proposition, question, shebang, subject, subject-matter, text, theme, thing, topic). (various references)

Romanian

afacere (affair, affairs, bargain, business, business deal, case, commerce, concern, deal, dealings, enterprise, go, job, palaver, pennyworth, percentage, show, speculation, tasks, trade, transaction, undertaking). (various references)

Russian 

материал (material, stock, stuff), дело (act, affair, affairs, business, business deal, case, cause, deal, deed, doing, dossier, engagement, file, part, proposition, shebang, thing, transaction, work). (various references)

Scottish

cùis (affair, business, business deal, case, cause, cause : cùis-eagail, subject). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

materija (mass, material, substance), masa (heap, mass), mariti (care, mind, reck), supstanca (substance), stvar (affair, article, case, cause, object, shebang, subject, thing), iznos (amount, sum), biti od značaja, činiti (act, do). (various references)

Spanish

materia (material, stuff, subject matter), asunto (affair, business, business deal, case, concern, gimmick, issue, item, palaver, subject, thing, topic), particular (affair, apart, business, business deal, case, individual, of one's own, particular, patent, private, private citizen, private person, sectional, separate, special, tutor), caso (affair, case, casual, dossier, fall, instance, notice, occurrence, subject). (various references)

Sranan

afersi (affair, business, business deal, case). (various references)

Swahili

jambo (affair, business, business deal, case). (various references)

Swedish

sak (affair, article, business, business deal, case, cause, concern, item, job, object, question, subject, thing), materia (clod), ting (object, session at court, thing), stoff (fuel, material, pabulum, stuff), angelägenhet (affair, business, concern, immediacy), ärende (case, errand, message). (various references)

Tagalog

bagay (affair, business, business deal, case, thing). (various references)

Turkish

mesele (affair, business, business deal, case, crux, hangup, issue, point, problem, proposition, question, Res, shebang, topic). (various references)

Turkmen 

materiяa (r) (fabric, material), madda (article, substance), jisim (body, mass), iю (activity, affair, work). (various references)

Ukrainian

суть (alcohol, backbone, content, core, entity, essence, essential, existence, gist, hinge, inwardness, juice, kernel, marrow, marrowbone, nature, net, nub, pith, point, quid, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, spirit, substance), речовина (agent, substance), гній (atter, dung, manure, muck, ordure, purulence, pus, soil), гноїтися (fester, rankle, suppurate), матерія (material), матеріал (material, medium, stuff), мати значення (be, be of importance, cut ice, signify). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật phẩm việc, vật chất đề, vấn đề việc quan trọng, sự kiện (prosecution), nguyên nhân (account, cause, mother), nội dung vật, lẽ, không gian (air, space), chuyện quan trọng số ước lượng, chuyện (story, whacking), chất (material, quality, stuff, substance), chủ đề (lord, subject, topic), cớ (cause, motive, pretext, wherefore), điều (thing, whacking). (various references)

Welsh

mater (affair), crawn (pus), busnes (affair, business, case). (various references)

Yucatec

beel (affair, business, business deal, case). (various references)

Zulu

indaba (affair, business, business deal, case). (various references)

materia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "matter": mattered, mattering, matters, mattery. (additional references)

Words ending with "matter": antimatter, formatter, smatter. (additional references)

Words containing "matter": antimatters, formatters, smattered, smatterer, smatterers, smattering, smatterings, smatters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Matter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cmwater, maftir, malter, Marter, martor, Masheter, Mashiter, Mashtaq, matar, Matari, Mataro, Mateev, mateir, Matera, matere, Matete, matier, matote, matre, matta, mattar, mattel, Matten, matteo, mattere, mattew, matthe, Matur, matyr, Mauter, Mautner, mawther, Mcactear, Mcteer, metta, metteur, mettre, mitter, mittere, mittier, motter, Motteroz, Mwatex, nater. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: armet, mater, matte, ramet, tamer, tater, tetra, treat.

-2 letters: mare, mart, mate, matt, meat, meta, rate, ream, tame, tare, tart, tate, team, tear, teat, term, tram, tret.

-3 letters: are, arm, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, eta, mae, mar, mat, met, ram, rat, rem, ret, tae, tam, tar, tat, tea, tet.

-4 letters: ae, am.

+1 letter: martlet, matters, mattery, smatter.

+2 letters: admitter, amaretti, amaretto, amoretti, amoretto, attemper, maltreat, maltster, martinet, martlets, mattered, mattress, maturate, maturest, mistreat, remittal, smartest, smatters, tautomer, teamster, teratism, teratoma, tetramer.

+3 letters: admitters, aftermath, aftermost, aftertime, altimeter, altimetry, amarettos, amorettos, apartment, atmometer, attempers, estimator, formatted, formatter, impetrate, intimater, letterman, literatim, majorette, maltreats, maltsters, martinets, maternity, mattering, maturated, maturates, meditator, meltwater, metatarsi, micturate, mistreats, octameter, outdreamt, ratemeter, reattempt, remittals, rotameter, smattered, smatterer, stateroom, stratagem, streamlet, tautomers, taximeter, teamsters, temperate, teratisms, teratomas, termagant, terminate, termitary, tetramers, transmute, treatment, trematode, tremulant, wattmeter.