Material

Quick meaning: Material is an adjective meaning Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.

Meaning

Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.

More Meanings

1. Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
2. (logic) Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
3. (especially law) Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.
4. Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic.
5. A basic matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made.
6. (obsolete) Full of substance or otherwise meaning.
7. (obsolete) In an important degree.

Example Sentences

material needs

material cause

the material aspect of being

the material elements of the universe

Word Forms

• materials
• materialing
• materialling
• materialed
• materialled

Synonyms for material

Depending on context, synonyms include bulky, massive, solid, meaty, matts, substantial.

Antonyms for material

Common opposites include spiritual, immaterial, incorporeal, unreal, insubstantial, unsubstantial.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include incarnate, worldly, substantial, corporeal, relevant, crucial.

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