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Definition of Immaterial

1. Adjective. Of no importance or relevance especially to a law case. "An objection that is immaterial after the fact"

2. Adjective. Without material form or substance. "An incorporeal spirit"

3. Adjective. Not consisting of matter. "Ghosts and other immaterial entities"

4. Adjective. Not pertinent to the matter under consideration. "Mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point"

5. Adjective. (often followed by 'to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other. "What others think is altogether indifferent to him"

Definition of Immaterial

1. a. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied.

Definition of Immaterial

1. Adjective. Having no matter or substance. ¹

2. Adjective. Irrelevant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Immaterial

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immaterial

immanifest immanities immanity immantle immantled immantles immantling immarcescible immarginate immartial

immask immasked immasking immasks immatchable immaterial (current term) immaterialise immaterialism immaterialisms immaterialist

immaterialistic immaterialists immaterialities immateriality immaterialize immaterialized immaterializes immaterializing immaterially immaterialness

Literary usage of Immaterial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"such a case frequently been held immaterial.83 But there are many cases enforcing the strict rule.34 § 1905. Criticism of decisions. ..."

2. A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions: Comprising a by Henry John Stephen, Samuel Williston (1895)
"That traverse must not be taken on an immaterial point, (x) This rule prohibits first the taking of a traverse on a point wholly immaterial. ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1835)
"The immaterial System of Man, contemplated in accordance trt'/A the Beautiful and the Sublime, and in reference to a Plan for General Education. ..."

4. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"In sum, the effectiveness of industry depends not only on material equipment, but also on what we may call immaterial equipment; not only on accumulated ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"... and also such as is material to delay, dismiss or bar the Bill; for if the issue tendered is immaterial, it can never finally dispose of the cause. ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... claimed by the respondents in clause three of the agreed facts on file, is [538] immaterial, and therefore inadmissible; and that the allegations in the ..."

7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"strictly to hie contract, however immaterial the matter warranted may be, so that a breach of the warranty may be availed of, the policy be avoided, ..."

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