immaterial
IPA: ɪmʌtˈɪriʌɫ
adjective
- Having no matter or substance.
- (figurative) So insubstantial as to be irrelevant.
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Examples of "immaterial" in Sentences
- The rest of the list is immaterial.
- Furthermore, the length of the section is immaterial.
- The duration of this apportionment is rather immaterial.
- Additionally the size of the newspapare is immaterial too.
- Anywhere the merits or demerits of this case are immaterial.
- Your paragraphs of chatter are immaterial to the discussion.
- Our materialistic outlook leaves no room for the immaterial.
- I wanted the emphasis to be on the fact that the accuracy is immaterial.
- The number of primary sources consulted is immaterial to the discussion.
- Nevertheless, my opinion of the correctness of the inference is immaterial.
- Even among people who believe in immaterial concepts like mind, there would be much disagreement over the cause of the concepts.
- To say that the human soul, angels, God, are immaterial is to say they are nothings, or that there is no God, no angels, no soul.
- Even his shingle read: "Ladies 'Tailor: Abramka Stiftik" -- the most valid proof that he deemed his name immaterial, but that the chief thing to him was his art.
- [NOTE TO SELF, FIND THIS: Sergio Bologna, "Problematiche del lavoro autonomo in Italia" (Part I), Altreragioni, no. 1 (1992), pp. 11-32; discussion of the term immaterial labor on 10-27.]
- One step advanced beyond this, Jerry's uttermost, the folk of Somo, from the contemplation of death, had achieved concepts of the spirits of the dead still living in immaterial and supersensuous realms.
- Meanwhile, Mr. Tondato said Autogrill has suffered minimal impact from the ongoing crisis in Japan following the recent earthquake and tsunami, with what he described as an "immaterial decrease" in boarding cards to and from Japan in recent days.
- For someone to imagine the immaterial when neither they nor anyone else has ever experienced the immaterial is rather like trying to imagine a fifth dimension -- it is something so far out of our perception that conceiving of it seems nearly impossible.