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/ˌɪmətˈɪriəl/ Listen

adjective

Immaterial adj.

Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. "Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual."

Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does so or not.

Synonyms: Unimportant; inconsequential; insignificant; inconsiderable; trifling.

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Etymology of 'Immaterial'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Immaterial" Quotes from Famous Books

... immaterial who I am, but since the matter seems to interest you, Mr. Von Bork, I may say that this is not my first acquaintance with the members of your family. I have done a good deal of business in Germany in the past and my name ...

— His Last Bow - An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle

... assumption may be made by any one, whatever his views may be with regard to the textual problems of the Hebrew Bible and the traditional authorship of the Pentateuch. And for our purpose at the moment it is immaterial whether we identify the compiler of these Hebrew narratives with Moses himself, or with some later Jewish historian whose name has not come down to us. Whoever he was, he has scrupulously preserved his ...

— Legends Of Babylon And Egypt - In Relation To Hebrew Tradition • Leonard W. King

... paying my own hotel and travelling expenses, and considering myself as engaged in case your wife should need my services. For that, you can pay me, if you like, some nominal retaining fee—five pounds or anything. The money is immaterial to me. I like to be useful, and I sympathise with nerves; but it may make your wife feel she is really keeping a hold over me if we put the arrangement on a business basis. As a matter of fact, whatever sum she chooses to pay, ...

— Hilda Wade - A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose • Grant Allen

... the last I shall tell of Bladesover. The dropscene falls on that, and it comes no more as an actual presence into this novel. I did indeed go back there once again, but under circumstances quite immaterial to my story. But in a sense Bladesover has never left me; it is, as I said at the outset, one of those dominant explanatory impressions that make the framework of my mind. Bladesover illuminates England; it has become all that is spacious, dignified pretentious, and truly ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... closer knowledge and study of the immaterial reality does not lead away from the earthly life and coperation with all striving humanity, as the fanatics and ascetics in the misconception of their idle and defective phantasy have believed ...

— The Bride of Dreams • Frederik van Eeden

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