immaterial

Meanings

Plural: immaterials

Adjective

of no importance or relevance especially to a law case
- "an objection that is immaterial after the fact"
without material form or substance
not consisting of matter
- "immaterial apparitions"
- "ghosts and other immaterial entities"

Adjective Satellite

not pertinent to the matter under consideration
- "the price was immaterial"
(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)"

Adj

Having no matter or substance; incorporeal.
Of the nature of the soul or spirit; spiritual.
Of no importance; inconsequential, insignificant, unimportant.
Having or seeming to have very little substance; insubstantial, slight.
Especially of evidence; chiefly followed by to: not associated in any way that is important or useful to the context being discussed; irrelevant.

Noun

A being or entity having no matter or substance.
A thing which is abstract or intangible; (uncountable) chiefly preceded by the: things which are abstract or intangible considered collectively.

Origin / Etymology

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English immaterial, inmateriall (“incorporeal; spiritual”), from Middle French immateriel (“not material”) (modern French immatériel), and from its etymon Medieval Latin immāteriālis (“not material”), from Latin im- (a variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’)) + māteriālis (“made of matter, material”) (from māteria (“matter, substance, material”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to arrange, put together; to build (up)”)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship)). The English word is analysable as im- + material.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

Synonyms

airy, arbitrary, base, betwixt and between, contemptible, diaphanous, ethereal, extraneous, flimsy, foolish, for the birds, frivolous, futile, gossamer, idle, ignorable, immaterial, impertinent, incoherent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, incorporeal, independent, indifferent, insignificant, insubstantial, intangible, irrelative, irrespective, like a fart in a windstorm, meager, mean, minor, negligible, neither here nor there, nondescript, nonmaterial, nothingburger, orthogonal, paltry, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddly, pissant, pitiful, pointless, self-standing, separate, silly, simple, slight, tenuous, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unallied, unconnected, ungermane, unimportant, unmaterial, unreal, unrelated, unsubstantial, unweighty, vain, worthless, wretched

Antonyms

corporeal, germane, ignorable, inconsequential, insignificant, insubstantial, material, minor, negligible, pertinent, relevant, superficial, tangible, trivial, unconnected, unimportant, unremarkable

Scrabble Score: 14

immaterial is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
immaterial is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
immaterial is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

immaterial is a valid Words With Friends word