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matter

Nouns

• (n) a vaguely specified concern
  • several matters to attend to
  • it is none of your affair
  • things are going well
  affair, thing,
• (n) some situation or event that is thought about
  • he kept drifting off the topic
  • he had been thinking about the subject for several years
  • it is a matter for the police
  topic, issue, subject,
• (n) that which has mass and occupies space
  • physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it
• (n) a problem
  • is anything the matter?
• (n) (used with negation) having consequence
  • they were friends and it was no matter who won the games
• (n) written works (especially in books or magazines)
  • he always took some reading matter with him on the plane

Verbs

• (v) have weight; have import, carry weight
  • It does not matter much
  count, weigh,

Synonyms

count weigh affair thing topic issue subject

See also

matter to interest

Words of close approximity