matter
noun
the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed.
matterless
-
a word derived from
matter.
Example Sentences
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"Your man, Robinson, has been drawing Elkin, or Elkin drew him—I am not quite sure which, but think it matterless either way."
From The Postmaster's Daughter by Louis Tracy
Dalton groped with one hand for his pocket but his hand kept slipping away into a matterless void as his vision threatened to slip into blindness.
From The Record of Currupira by Robert Abernathy
I cannot discover that any contemporary physicist or chemist believes in the real indivisibility of atoms, or in an interatomic matterless vacuum.
From The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century by Thomas Henry Huxley
At the bottom of the scale will be absolutely formless matter, at the top, absolutely matterless form.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
The existent universe is a scale of being lying between the two extremes of formless matter and matterless form.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
