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immaterial
adjective as in irrelevant
Strongest matches
adjective as in not existing in physical form
Strong matches
Weak matches
- aerial
- airy
- apparitional
- asomatous
- bodiless
- celestial
- disbodied
- discarnate
- disembodied
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- ethereal
- ghostly
- heavenly
- impalpable
- imponderable
- incorporate
- insensible
- intangible
- metaphysical
- nonphysical
- psychic
- shadowy
- spectral
- spiritlike
- spiritual
- subjective
- supernatural
- unearthly
- unembodied
- unfleshly
- unsubstantial
- unworldly
- wraithlike
Example Sentences
Local board acceptance is immaterial in California and normally handled as a point of information.
Pennsylvania’s law disenfranchising voters who cast timely ballots but make an immaterial mistake is nonsensical.
A federal challenge arguing that the law violates a part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 barring disenfranchising voters for certain immaterial errors so far has failed; the Supreme Court will decide after the election whether to take the case.
This is what was hanging over the Pennsylvania Supreme Court when it decided against protecting voters in its state who make an immaterial voting mistake.
Vu explained the science behind butter’s moisture and fat content: "Butter that is higher in fat would logically follow that it has a lower water content and vice-versa. In most savory cooking, if you are melting or browning the butter, this would be immaterial. But in many baking recipes, you might be relying on some of that water to become steam to help leaven your pastry."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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