'Immaterial' definitions:
Definition of 'immaterial'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of no importance or relevance especially to a law case; "an objection that is immaterial after the fact" [ant: material]
adjective
Without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit" [syn: incorporeal, immaterial] [ant: corporeal, material]
adjective
Not consisting of matter; "immaterial apparitions"; "ghosts and other immaterial entities" [syn: immaterial, nonmaterial] [ant: material]
adjective
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" [syn: extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal]
adjective
(often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other; "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" [syn: immaterial, indifferent]
Definition of 'Immaterial'
From: GCIDE
- Immaterial \Im`ma*te"ri*al\ ([i^]m`m[.a]*t[=e]"r[i^]*al), a. [Pref. im- not + material: cf. F. immat['e]riel.]
- 1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. [1913 Webster]
- Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does so or not.
- Syn: Unimportant; inconsequential; insignificant; inconsiderable; trifling. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'immaterial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adrift,
- aerial,
- airy,
- apparitional,
- asomatous,
- astral,
- back-burner,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- beside the question,
- bodiless,
- celestial,
- decarnate,
- decarnated,
- dinky,
- discarnate,
- disembodied,
- dispensable,
- ephemeral,
- ethereal,
- evanescent,
- extramundane,
- extraneous,
- extrinsic,
- fanciful,
- flimsy,
- foreign,
- ghostly,
- heavenly,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- impalpable,
- impertinent,
- imponderable,
- inadmissible,
- inapplicable,
- inapposite,
- inappreciable,
- inappropriate,
- incidental,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- incorporate,
- incorporeal,
- inessential,
- inferior,
- insensible,
- insignificant,
- insubstantial,
- intangible,
- irrelative,
- irrelevant,
- light,
- little,
- merely nominal,
- metaphysical,
- minor,
- minute,
- negligible,
- nihil ad rem,
- nonessential,
- nonmaterial,
- nonphysical,
- nonsubstantial,
- not at issue,
- not real,
- not vital,
- nugatory,
- occult,
- off the subject,
- otherworldly,
- out-of-the-way,
- parenthetical,
- petit,
- petty,
- phantom,
- psychic,
- shadowy,
- slight,
- small,
- spiritual,
- subjective,
- supernatural,
- technical,
- transmundane,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- unactual,
- unconcrete,
- unearthly,
- unembodied,
- unessential,
- unextended,
- unfleshly,
- unimportant,
- unimpressive,
- unnoteworthy,
- unphysical,
- unreal,
- unrealistic,
- unsolid,
- unsubstanced,
- unsubstantial,
- unworldly,
- weightless