immaterial 音标拼音: [
, ɪmət'ɪriəl]
a . 非物质的,无形的,精神的
非物质的,无形的,精神的
immaterial adj 1 :
of no importance or relevance especially to a law case ;
"
an objection that is immaterial after the fact " [
ant :
{
material }]
2 :
without material form or substance ; "
an incorporeal spirit "
[
synonym : {
incorporeal }, {
immaterial }] [
ant : {
corporeal },
{
material }]
3 :
not consisting of matter ; "
immaterial apparitions "; "
ghosts and other immaterial entities " [
synonym : {
immaterial },
{
nonmaterial }] [
ant : {
material }]
4 :
not pertinent to the matter under consideration ; "
an issue extraneous to the debate "; "
the price was immaterial ";
"
mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point " [
synonym : {
extraneous }, {
immaterial }, {
impertinent },
{
orthogonal }]
5 : (
often followed by `
to ')
lacking importance ;
not mattering one way or the other ; "
whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (
or indifferent )"; "
what others think is altogether indifferent to him " [
synonym :
{
immaterial }, {
indifferent }]
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Pref .
im -
not material :
cf .
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1 .
Not consisting of matter ;
incorporeal ;
spiritual ;
disembodied .
[
1913 Webster ]
Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual .
--
Hooker .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Of no substantial consequence ;
without weight or significance ;
unimportant ;
as ,
it is wholly immaterial whether he does so or not .
Syn :
Unimportant ;
inconsequential ;
insignificant ;
inconsiderable ;
trifling .
[
1913 Webster ]
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "
immaterial ":
adrift ,
aerial ,
airy ,
apparitional ,
asomatous ,
astral ,
back -
burner ,
beside the mark ,
beside the point ,
beside the question ,
bodiless ,
celestial ,
decarnate ,
decarnated ,
dinky ,
discarnate ,
disembodied ,
dispensable ,
ephemeral ,
ethereal ,
evanescent ,
extramundane ,
extraneous ,
extrinsic ,
fanciful ,
flimsy ,
foreign ,
ghostly ,
heavenly ,
illusory ,
imaginary ,
impalpable ,
impertinent ,
imponderable ,
inadmissible ,
inapplicable ,
inapposite ,
inappreciable ,
inappropriate ,
incidental ,
inconsequent ,
inconsequential ,
inconsiderable ,
incorporate ,
incorporeal ,
inessential ,
inferior ,
insensible ,
insignificant ,
insubstantial ,
intangible ,
irrelative ,
irrelevant ,
light ,
little ,
merely nominal ,
metaphysical ,
minor ,
minute ,
negligible ,
nihil ad rem ,
nonessential ,
nonmaterial ,
nonphysical ,
nonsubstantial ,
not at issue ,
not real ,
not vital ,
nugatory ,
occult ,
off the subject ,
otherworldly ,
out -
of -
the -
way ,
parenthetical ,
petit ,
petty ,
phantom ,
psychic ,
shadowy ,
slight ,
small ,
spiritual ,
subjective ,
supernatural ,
technical ,
transmundane ,
trifling ,
trivial ,
unactual ,
unconcrete ,
unearthly ,
unembodied ,
unessential ,
unextended ,
unfleshly ,
unimportant ,
unimpressive ,
unnoteworthy ,
unphysical ,
unreal ,
unrealistic ,
unsolid ,
unsubstanced ,
unsubstantial ,
unworldly ,
weightless
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