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immaterial

[ im-uh-teer-ee-uhl ]

adjective

  1. of no essential consequence; unimportant.
  2. not pertinent; irrelevant.
  3. not material; incorporeal; spiritual.


immaterial

/ ˌɪməˈtɪərɪəl /

adjective

  1. of no real importance; inconsequential
  2. not formed of matter; incorporeal; spiritual
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌimmaˈterially, adverb
  • ˌimmaˌteriˈality, noun
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Other Words From

  • imma·teri·al·ly adverb
  • imma·teri·al·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of immaterial1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word immāteriālis. See im- 2, material
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Example Sentences

Regardless of where you land between — or even on — those two poles is immaterial.

Whether Hand gets every save opportunity is immaterial — though he was a perfect 16 for 16 with Cleveland last year.

We literally lost only a few million dollars, which is fairly immaterial.

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We’re — you know, so I think — what I think of that is immaterial.

Winning a championship, even under disputed circumstances, has a way of making everything else immaterial.

It is immaterial if the infidel is a combatant or a civilian.

The lack of evidence for HGH as an effective performance enhancer is just as immaterial as its illegality.

Whether blame is assigned to the failed follower or the failed leader is immaterial.

Their daily experiences are so much more powerful than ink on paper that they make the content of textbooks immaterial.

So as long as a lethal strike passes muster in constitutional terms, the location of the target is immaterial.

It is immaterial to whom the transfer is made if the purpose be to prefer one creditor to another.

It appears also, as far as absorption goes, to be immaterial whether the ammonia is free or combined.

It is immaterial whether she acquired her estate before or after the birth of the child.

Nor is the fact immaterial that he need not, and would not have made the payment had he known the true state of things.

Like him, he disbelieved in the existence of anything immaterial, for even a human soul is formed out of matter.

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