adjective
- Of no importance or relevance especially to a law case.
- usage: "an objection that is immaterial after the fact"
- Without material form or substance.
- usage: "an incorporeal spirit"
- synonyms: incorporeal
- Not consisting of matter.
- usage: "immaterial apparitions"; "ghosts and other immaterial entities"
- synonyms: nonmaterial
- Not pertinent to the matter under consideration.
- usage: "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point"
- synonyms: extraneous, impertinent, orthogonal
- Often followed by `to'. ( lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other)
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: indifferent
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