| 单词 | immaterial |
| 释义 | immaterial (once / 2490 pages) 1adj 2adj Things that are immaterial have no physical form (like a ghost) or are unimportant (like most ghost stories). Something that’s material has substance, right? You can touch it or it's important. So the opposite is the word immaterial, which means something that doesn't matter, or has no physical substance, or which adds nothing to the subject at hand. This word is heard a lot in court, where "It's immaterial!" dismisses evidence or testimony as meaningless or beside the point. You could say the wind is literally immaterial, though windiness is not immaterial if you’re going kiting. WORD FAMILYimmaterial: immaterialise, immateriality, immaterialize, immaterially+/dematerialise: dematerialised, dematerialises/dematerialize: dematerialized, dematerializes, dematerializing/immaterialise: immaterialised/immaterialize: immaterialized, immaterializes/material: immaterial, materialise, materialism, materiality, materialize, materially, materials, nonmaterial/materialisation: materialisations/materialise: dematerialise, materialisation, materialised, materialises, materialising/materialism: materialisms, materialist, materialistic/materialist: materialists/materialistic: materialistically/materiality: materialities/materialization: materializations/materialize: dematerialize, materialization, materialized, materializes, materializing USAGE EXAMPLESA tiny, immaterial industrial outpost marking naught but the dwindling Texas shoreline as it slopes and surrenders on its muddy fall to Mexico. The Guardian(Dec 21, 2016) My colleagues across the court look almost immaterial. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) With the NFL, he says, “I worry the least” and said a dip in a game’s ratings “is immaterial to us.” Washington Post(Dec 14, 2016) 1 1adj (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) Syn indifferent unimportant not important 2adj of no importance or relevance especially to a law case an objection that is immaterial after the fact Ant material directly relevant to a matter especially a law case crucialhaving crucial relevance 3adj not pertinent to the matter under consideration 2the price was immaterial Syn extraneous, impertinent, orthogonal irrelevant having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue 1adj without material form or substance Syn|Ant incorporeal unbodied having no body bodiless, discorporate, disembodied, unbodied, unembodiednot having a material body spirituallacking material body or form or substance corporeal, material having material or physical form or substance bodiedhaving a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination bodilyhaving or relating to a physical material body bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnatepossessing or existing in bodily form reincarnatehaving a new body 2adj not consisting of matter immaterial apparitions ghosts and other immaterial entities Syn|Ant nonmaterial insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial lacking material form or substance; unreal intangible, nonphysicallacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen material derived from or composed of matter material, real, substantialhaving substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary physicalhaving substance or material existence; perceptible to the senses physicalconcerned with material things |
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