EGAVE

immaterial

About 1.63 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Having no matter or substance; incorporeal.
    Some believe that because ghosts are immaterial, they can pass through walls.
  2. adjective Of the nature of the soul or spirit; spiritual.
  3. adjective Of no importance; inconsequential, insignificant, unimportant.
    Objection, your Honour! The defendant’s criminal record is immaterial to this case.
  4. adjective Of no importance; inconsequential, insignificant, unimportant.
  5. adjective Having or seeming to have very little substance; insubstantial, slight.
  6. adjective Especially of evidence; chiefly followed by to: not associated in any way that is important or useful to the context being discussed; irrelevant.
    Objection, your Honour! The defendant’s criminal record is immaterial to this case.
  7. noun A being or entity having no matter or substance.
  8. noun A thing which is abstract or intangible; chiefly preceded by the: things which are abstract or intangible considered collectively.

Similar words

unbodied disembodied incorporeal bodiless unembodied indifferent irrelevant intangible nonphysical nonmaterial

Often followed by

whether to and that in substance for as soul

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