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US
/ˌɪməˈtɪɹiəɫ/
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[ UK /ˌɪmətˈiəɹɪəl/ ]
[ UK /ˌɪmətˈiəɹɪəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of no importance or relevance especially to a law case
an objection that is immaterial after the fact -
not consisting of matter
ghosts and other immaterial entities
immaterial apparitions -
without material form or substance
an incorporeal spirit -
not pertinent to the matter under consideration
the price was immaterial
an issue extraneous to the debate
mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point -
(often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other
what others think is altogether indifferent to him
whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)
How To Use immaterial In A Sentence
- In the case of marriage, calling SSM discriminatory or segregationist represents either a failure to adequately recognise the sexuality of the individual involved or more perniciously to regard that distinction as immaterial or undeserving of respect. Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
- One step advanced beyond this, Jerry's uttermost, the folk of Somo, from the contemplation of death, had achieved concepts of the spirits of the dead still living in immaterial and supersensuous realms. Chapter 15
- What had touched the world's hearts was the ethereal immaterialism of their secluded world and something primal in the music they sang.
- The assumption that the benefits of Global Warmist policy are infinite and the costs immaterial is simply rubbish.
- It would be sounded high that he debased human nature, which has a "cognation," so the reverend and learned Doctor Cudworth calls it, with the divine; that the soul of man, immaterial and immortal by its nature, was made to contemplate higher and nobler objects than this sensible world, and even than itself, since it was made to contemplate God and to be united to Him. Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope
- The fact that their views may not reflect majority views, or indeed are specifically opposed to majority views, is immaterial.
- In 1709 he issued An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, followed in the next year by The Principles of Human Knowledge, the main exposition of his immaterialism.
- This is the age of post-postmodernism -- an age of both inoperative language and linguistic reflexivity, of "meaning" as both immaterial material and material immateriality -- and Douglas Kearney pushes hard against all of this by rendering language as active, operative, and indeed a locus for Spectacle. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
- Anthropological theories of virtualism, materiality/immateriality and digitisation. Culture Matters
- She was the only person, in any case, that he had to say goodbye to -- the rest was immaterial, of no importance whatsoever. THE OPEN DOOR