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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMMATE'RIAL, a.
1. Incorporeal; not material; not consisting of matter; as immaterial spirits. The mind or soul is immaterial.
2. Unimportant; without weight; not material; of no essential consequence.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of no importance or relevance especially to a law case; "an objection that is immaterial after the fact" [ant: material]
2: without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit" [syn: incorporeal, immaterial] [ant: corporeal, material]
3: not consisting of matter; "immaterial apparitions"; "ghosts and other immaterial entities" [syn: immaterial, nonmaterial] [ant: material]
4: 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" [syn: extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal]
5: (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" [syn: immaterial, indifferent]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English immaterial, from Late Latin immaterialis, from Latin in- + Late Latin materialis material Date: 14th century 1. not consisting of matter ; incorporeal 2. of no substantial consequence ; unimportant

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 of no essential consequence; unimportant. 2 not material; incorporeal. Derivatives: immateriality n. immaterialize v.tr. (also -ise). immaterially adv. Etymology: ME f. LL immaterialis (as IN-(1), MATERIAL)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Immaterial Im`ma*te"ri*al ([i^]m`m[.a]*t[=e]"r[i^]*al), a. [Pref. im- not + material: cf. F. immat['e]riel.] 1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. --Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does so or not. Syn: Unimportant; inconsequential; insignificant; inconsiderable; trifling.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that something is immaterial, you mean that it is not important or not relevant. Whether we like him or not is immaterial. = irrelevant ADJ: v-link ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Incorporeal, unbodied, unfleshly, spiritual, supersensible. 2. Unimportant, insignificant, unessential, non-essential, of no importance, of no consequence.

Moby Thesaurus

adrift, aerial, airy, apparitional, asomatous, astral, back-burner, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, bodiless, celestial, decarnate, decarnated, dinky, discarnate, disembodied, dispensable, ephemeral, ethereal, evanescent, extramundane, extraneous, extrinsic, fanciful, flimsy, foreign, ghostly, heavenly, illusory, imaginary, impalpable, impertinent, imponderable, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappreciable, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, incorporate, incorporeal, inessential, inferior, insensible, insignificant, insubstantial, intangible, irrelative, irrelevant, light, little, merely nominal, metaphysical, minor, minute, negligible, nihil ad rem, nonessential, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, not at issue, not real, not vital, nugatory, occult, off the subject, otherworldly, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, petit, petty, phantom, psychic, shadowy, slight, small, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, technical, transmundane, trifling, trivial, unactual, unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied, unessential, unextended, unfleshly, unimportant, unimpressive, unnoteworthy, unphysical, unreal, unrealistic, unsolid, unsubstanced, unsubstantial, unworldly, weightless