Synonyms for immaterial
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Unimportant — of no importance; inconsequential, insignificant, unimportant
unimportant, irrelevant, inconsequential, insignificant, trivial, trifling, indifferent, inconsiderable, negligible, petty, minor, piddling, null, slight, unessential, worthless, frivolous, picayune US, paltry, idle, vain, meager US CA, meagre UK
2. Intangible — having no matter or substance; incorporeal
3. Insubstantial — having or seeming to have very little substance; insubstantial, slight
insubstantial, spiritual, unreal, ethereal, flimsy, diaphanous formal, airy, gossamer, tenuous, unsubstantial dated
4. Extraneous
Other
incorporeal, non-physical, disembodied, bodiless, irrelative, apparitional, unembodied, unfleshly, irreal, ungermane, unbodied dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Having no matter or substance; incorporeal.
Some believe that because ghosts are immaterial, they can pass through walls.
- adj. 2
Of no importance; inconsequential, insignificant, unimportant.
- adj. 3
Having or seeming to have very little substance; insubstantial, slight.
- adj. 4
Of the nature of the soul or spirit; spiritual.
Related words
- Word family
- immateriality immaterialise immaterialness
Example sentences
- irrelevant She pays too much attention to irrelevant things.
- insignificant There is no such thing as an insignificant detail.
- unimportant This detail is unimportant. You can safely omit it.
- inconsequential The things he says are entirely inconsequential.
- disembodied Tom's disembodied voice spoke to the undead army.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| immaterial | falling | |
| irrelevant | steady | |
| insignificant | falling | |
| unimportant | falling | |
| inconsequential | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- null1, idle2, vain1, airy2
- 5 letters
- minor2, petty2
- 6 letters
- slight1, unreal2, flimsy2, meager2, paltry2, meagre, irreal
- 7 letters
- trivial3, tenuous3
- 8 letters
- ethereal4, trifling2, picayune3, gossamer3, piddling3, bodiless, unbodied
- 9 letters
- spiritual4, worthless2, frivolous3, unfleshly, ungermane
- 10 letters
- irrelevant4, negligible4, intangible4, orthogonal4, extraneous4, diaphanous4, unmaterial, irrelative, unembodied
- 11 letters
- indifferent3, unimportant4, disembodied4, impertinent4, incorporeal, unessential
- 12 letters
- apparitional
- 13 letters
- insignificant5, insubstantial4, unsubstantial
- 14 letters
- inconsiderable
- 15 letters
- inconsequential5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (idle2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- immatériel
- Italiano
- immateriale