adjective Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
This compound has a number of interesting material properties.
adjective Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
material needs
adjective Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
material cause
adjective Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.
found a material difference between two things
adjective Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic.
the material world
adjective Full of substance or otherwise meaning.
adjective In an important degree.
noun Any matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made.
Asphalt, composed of oil and sand, is a widely used material for roads.