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immaterial 音標拼音: [ ,ɪmət'ɪriəl] a. 非物質的,無形的,精神的 非物質的,無形的,精神的 immaterial adj 1: of no importance or relevance especially to a law case; " an objection that is immaterial after the fact" [ ant: { material}] 2: without material form or substance; " an incorporeal spirit" [ synonym: { incorporeal}, { immaterial}] [ ant: { corporeal}, { material}] 3: not consisting of matter; " immaterial apparitions"; " ghosts and other immaterial entities" [ synonym: { immaterial}, { nonmaterial}] [ ant: { material}] 4: not pertinent to the matter under consideration; " an issue extraneous to the debate"; " the price was immaterial"; " mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point" [ synonym: { extraneous}, { immaterial}, { impertinent}, { orthogonal}] 5: ( 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)"; " what others think is altogether indifferent to him" [ synonym: { immaterial}, { indifferent}] Immaterial \ Im` ma* te" ri* al\ ([ i^] m` m[. a]* t[= e]" r[ i^]* al), a. [ Pref. im- not material: cf. F. immat[' e] riel.] 1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. [ 1913 Webster] Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. -- Hooker. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does so or not. Syn: Unimportant; inconsequential; insignificant; inconsiderable; trifling. [ 1913 Webster] 106 Moby Thesaurus words for " immaterial": adrift, aerial, airy, apparitional, asomatous, astral, back- burner, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, bodiless, celestial, decarnate, decarnated, dinky, discarnate, disembodied, dispensable, ephemeral, ethereal, evanescent, extramundane, extraneous, extrinsic, fanciful, flimsy, foreign, ghostly, heavenly, illusory, imaginary, impalpable, impertinent, imponderable, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappreciable, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, incorporate, incorporeal, inessential, inferior, insensible, insignificant, insubstantial, intangible, irrelative, irrelevant, light, little, merely nominal, metaphysical, minor, minute, negligible, nihil ad rem, nonessential, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, not at issue, not real, not vital, nugatory, occult, off the subject, otherworldly, out- of- the- way, parenthetical, petit, petty, phantom, psychic, shadowy, slight, small, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, technical, transmundane, trifling, trivial, unactual, unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied, unessential, unextended, unfleshly, unimportant, unimpressive, unnoteworthy, unphysical, unreal, unrealistic, unsolid, unsubstanced, unsubstantial, unworldly, weightless
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