immaterial

  • (a) of no importance or relevance especially to a law case
    • an objection that is immaterial after the fact
  • (a) without material form or substance
    • an incorporeal spirit
    incorporeal,
  • (a) not consisting of matter
    • immaterial apparitions
    • ghosts and other immaterial entities
    nonmaterial,
  • (s) 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
    extraneous, orthogonal, impertinent,
  • (s) (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
    indifferent,

Synonyms

incorporeal nonmaterial extraneous orthogonal impertinent indifferent

Antonyms

material corporeal

See also

unbodied insubstantial unsubstantial unreal

Words of close approximity

immaterialise immateriality immaterialize