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Definition of immaterial in English: immaterialadjective ɪməˈtɪərɪəlˌɪ(m)məˈtɪriəl 1Unimportant under the circumstances; irrelevant. 无关紧要的，不相关的 the difference in our ages is immaterial Example sentencesExamples - Wins and losses, for any sport, are ultimately immaterial in considering the value of an athletic program.
- Nonetheless, I do not think we can simply write off as immaterial or irrelevant the views expressed by my interlocutor.
- Far from immaterial, such a question is particularly relevant.
- Hence the delay required to obtain a warrant is usually immaterial.
- The fact that the keeper got a touch as the shot flew past him into the corner of the net was immaterial, given the ferocity of the 23-year old's strike.
- Since, as you say, it's immaterial to the evidence she would introduce, why can't you tell us whether she is or isn't?
- The event, the fourth of its kind, is open to all: age, language, gender and sexual orientation are immaterial.
- She - the scholar - really wanted to believe that; whether or not it was true was almost immaterial.
- That the candidate also had significant executive branch experience and helped remake whole areas of the law was immaterial.
- Whether the public believed him was immaterial, though any public outcry in support of the union message could only be helpful.
- Anyone can, for instance, glue styrofoam cups to a board and it is meaningless, craftless, and immaterial.
- The locality of the registration is immaterial - 90 per cent of people here drive badly or atrociously.
- The fact that their views may not reflect majority views, or indeed are specifically opposed to majority views, is immaterial.
- He's going to have an inconsistency, be it material or immaterial.
- The fact he lost his way then is, to an extent, immaterial.
- So the government says this is all irrelevant and immaterial.
- But as he rightly pointed out, that fact was totally immaterial.
- It is immaterial that they belong to urban or rural area.
- Whether they are right or not about their goal (and I think they were wrong) is immaterial.
- Therefore, while regrettable, the omission in my view is immaterial in these circumstances.
Synonyms irrelevant, unimportant, inconsequential, insignificant, of no matter/moment, of little account, beside the point, not to the point, neither here nor there, inapposite, not pertinent, not germane trivial, trifling, petty, superficial peripheral, tangential, extraneous 2Philosophy
Spiritual, rather than physical. 〔哲〕无形的，非物质的 我们有无形的灵魂。 Example sentencesExamples - For fear of saying such things, people in the past invented the notion of an immaterial soul, but Schopenhauer will have none of that.
- Even if immaterial souls do not exist, there is good reason not to identify the deaths of people with the deaths of their bodies.
- Epicurus rejected the existence of Platonic forms and an immaterial soul, and he said that the gods have no influence on our lives.
- I thought how ephemeral and immaterial the bond we have with anybody is, and for the most part we are alone to see and witness the world.
- We find new relationships with technologies by rubbing our corporeal bodies up against them, not by crossing a threshold into their immaterial worlds.
Synonyms intangible, incorporeal, not material, bodiless, unembodied, disembodied, impalpable, ethereal, unsubstantial, insubstantial, airy, aerial spiritual, ghostly, spectral, wraithlike, transcendental, unearthly, supernatural rare discarnate, disincarnate, unbodied, phantasmal, phantasmic
OriginLate Middle English (in sense 2): from late Latin immaterialis, from in- 'not' + materialis 'relating to matter'. Rhymesarterial, bacterial, cereal, criterial, ethereal, ferial, funereal, imperial, magisterial, managerial, material, ministerial, presbyterial, serial, sidereal, venereal, biomaterial Definition of immaterial in US English: immaterialadjectiveˌɪ(m)məˈtɪriəlˌi(m)məˈtirēəl 1Unimportant under the circumstances; irrelevant. 无关紧要的，不相关的 so long as the band kept the beat, what they played was immaterial 只要乐队保持节拍，他们在演奏什么就无关紧要了。 Example sentencesExamples - But as he rightly pointed out, that fact was totally immaterial.
- Wins and losses, for any sport, are ultimately immaterial in considering the value of an athletic program.
- The fact that their views may not reflect majority views, or indeed are specifically opposed to majority views, is immaterial.
- She - the scholar - really wanted to believe that; whether or not it was true was almost immaterial.
- The fact that the keeper got a touch as the shot flew past him into the corner of the net was immaterial, given the ferocity of the 23-year old's strike.
- The fact he lost his way then is, to an extent, immaterial.
- Whether the public believed him was immaterial, though any public outcry in support of the union message could only be helpful.
- So the government says this is all irrelevant and immaterial.
- Hence the delay required to obtain a warrant is usually immaterial.
- He's going to have an inconsistency, be it material or immaterial.
- Anyone can, for instance, glue styrofoam cups to a board and it is meaningless, craftless, and immaterial.
- The event, the fourth of its kind, is open to all: age, language, gender and sexual orientation are immaterial.
- That the candidate also had significant executive branch experience and helped remake whole areas of the law was immaterial.
- Far from immaterial, such a question is particularly relevant.
- Nonetheless, I do not think we can simply write off as immaterial or irrelevant the views expressed by my interlocutor.
- It is immaterial that they belong to urban or rural area.
- Therefore, while regrettable, the omission in my view is immaterial in these circumstances.
- Whether they are right or not about their goal (and I think they were wrong) is immaterial.
- Since, as you say, it's immaterial to the evidence she would introduce, why can't you tell us whether she is or isn't?
- The locality of the registration is immaterial - 90 per cent of people here drive badly or atrociously.
Synonyms irrelevant, unimportant, inconsequential, insignificant, of no matter, of no moment, of little account, beside the point, not to the point, neither here nor there, inapposite, not pertinent, not germane 2Philosophy
Spiritual, rather than physical. 〔哲〕无形的，非物质的 我们有无形的灵魂。 Example sentencesExamples - Epicurus rejected the existence of Platonic forms and an immaterial soul, and he said that the gods have no influence on our lives.
- I thought how ephemeral and immaterial the bond we have with anybody is, and for the most part we are alone to see and witness the world.
- We find new relationships with technologies by rubbing our corporeal bodies up against them, not by crossing a threshold into their immaterial worlds.
- Even if immaterial souls do not exist, there is good reason not to identify the deaths of people with the deaths of their bodies.
- For fear of saying such things, people in the past invented the notion of an immaterial soul, but Schopenhauer will have none of that.
Synonyms intangible, incorporeal, not material, bodiless, unembodied, disembodied, impalpable, ethereal, unsubstantial, insubstantial, airy, aerial
UsageImmaterial and irrelevant are familiar in legal, especially courtroom, use. Immaterial means ‘unimportant because not adding anything to the point.’ Irrelevant, a much more common word, means ‘beside the point, not speaking to the point.’ Courts have long ceased to demand precise distinctions, and evidence is often objected to as “immaterial, irrelevant, and incompetent (‘offered by a witness who is not qualified to offer it’).” OriginLate Middle English (in immaterial (sense 2)): from late Latin immaterialis, from in- ‘not’ + materialis ‘relating to matter’. |