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Matter

noun

A vaguely specified concern. Synonyms: affair, thing. "It is none of your affair" , "Things are going well"

Some situation or event that is thought about. Synonyms: issue, subject, topic. "He had been thinking about the subject for several years" , "It is a matter for the police"

That which has mass and occupies space.

A problem.

(used with negation) having consequence.

Written works (especially in books or magazines).

verb

(past & past part. mattered; pres. part. mattering)

Have weight; have import, carry weight. Synonyms: count, weigh.

Mat

adjective

Not reflecting light; not glossy. Synonyms: flat, matt, matte, matted. "A photograph with a matte finish"

Matt

adjective

Not reflecting light; not glossy. Synonyms: flat, mat, matte, matted. "A photograph with a matte finish"

Matte

adjective

Not reflecting light; not glossy. Synonyms: flat, mat, matt, matted. "A photograph with a matte finish"

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"Matter" Quotes from Famous Books

... the matter is, that we're all in trade when we've got anything, from poetry to pork, to sell; and it's all foolishness to talk about one fellow's goods being sweller than another's. The only way in which he can be different is by making them better. But if we haven't anything to sell, ...

— Old Gorgon Graham - More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer

... fast, And must go with it! Ah, how bright the sun Strikes on the sea and on the masts of vessels, That are uplifted, in the morning air, Like crosses of some peaceable crusade! It makes me long to sail for lands unknown, No matter whither! Under me, in shadow, Gloomy and narrow, lies the little town, Still sleeping, but to wake and toil awhile, Then sleep again. How dismal looks the prison, How grim and sombre in the sunless street,— The prison where she sleeps, or wakes and waits For what I dare not ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... am sleepy; and no matter what the rest of you say I'm going to get my bunk made up. I want to be in apple-pie shape for to-morrow, for I expect it's going to be a red-letter day ...

— Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys - The Birch Bark Lodge • Silas K. Boone

... Caledonia, a town high on the snowy prairie. Caledonia! For years that word was a poem in my ear, part of a marvellous and epic march. Actually it consisted of a few frame houses and a grocery store. But no matter. Its name shall ring like a peal of bells ...

— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... "you pain and surprise me. I do not profess to be ignorant of the cause of your—annoyance. But perhaps if I acquaint you with the facts of my own position in the matter you will be open to reconsider ...

— Dope • Sax Rohmer

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