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immaterial(dictionary)
IMMATERIAL(law)
IMMATERIAL ISSUE(law)

immaterial (iou)



immaterial adjective & noun. LME.
[Late Latin immaterialis, formed as IM-2 + materialis MATERIAL.]
A. adjective.
Not material; not consisting of matter; spiritual. LME.
J. Brodsky We sensed a strange intensity in the air, something immaterial.
b. Having little substance, flimsy. rare. E17.
Not pertinent to the matter in hand. L16-M17.
Of an abstract thing: of no consequence, unimportant. L17.
Conan Doyle You will be given a perfectly free hand. Surely the actual name of your client is immaterial. P. G. Wodehouse Whether Wilfred Slingsby was crushed or defiant was immaterial.
b. noun. In pl. Non-material things. M17.
immateri'ality noun (a) the quality or character of being immaterial; (b) rare an immaterial thing:L16.
immaterialize verb trans. make immaterial or incorporeal M17.
immaterially adverb M17.