Immaterial - English meaning

adjective

Existing, happening, or operating in the air.

Usage examples:

An aerial battle

noun

A rod, wire, or other structure by which signals are transmitted or received as part of a radio or television transmission or receiving system.

Usage examples:

Immediately below the vision aerial is the aerial for the accompanying sound transmissions.

noun

An antenna

Usage examples:

Aerial photographs are used in making these maps.

adjective

(of a room or building) spacious, well lit, and well ventilated.

Usage examples:

The conservatory is light and airy

adjective

Lacking a body.

Usage examples:

A bodiless head

adjective

Separated from or existing without the body.

Usage examples:

A disembodied ghost

verb

Separate (something) from its material form.

Usage examples:

The play of light off the dome's glass further served to disembody it

adjective

Existing without a body

Usage examples:

A disembodied voice crackled from the radio.

adjective

Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems not to be of this world.

Usage examples:

Her ethereal beauty

adjective

Extremely light and delicate, as if not of this world

Usage examples:

Ethereal music, an ethereal beauty

adjective

Of or like a ghost in appearance or sound; eerie and unnatural.

Usage examples:

A frightening, ghostly figure with a hood

adjective

Pale and transparent in a way that does not seem real, like a ghost

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A ghostly figure/apparition, a ghostly voice/echo

adjective

Unable to be felt by touch.

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An impalpable ghost

adjective

Difficult to feel or understand

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An impalpable beauty/quality

adjective

Out of place; inappropriate.

Usage examples:

The shakespearean allusions are inapposite

adjective

Not important or significant.

Usage examples:

They talked about inconsequential things

adjective

Not important; able to be ignored

Usage examples:

Changes in the stock market were pretty inconsequential during the past week.

adjective

Not composed of matter; having no material existence.

Usage examples:

A supreme but incorporeal being called god

adjective

Too small or unimportant to be worth consideration.

Usage examples:

The sum required was insignificant compared with military spending

adjective

Not important or thought to be valuable

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Her problems seemed pretty insignificant compared to her brother’s., my colleagues despised this ma…

adjective

Lacking strength and solidity.

Usage examples:

The huts are relatively few and insubstantial

adjective

Of little value or importance, or not being strong, solid, or large

Usage examples:

He was popular during the early part of the 20th century, but today his work seems dated and insubs…

adjective

Unable to be touched; not having physical presence.

Usage examples:

The moonlight made things seem intangible

noun

An intangible thing.

Usage examples:

Intangibles like self-confidence and responsibility

adjective

Influencing you but not able to be seen or physically felt

Usage examples:

There is the intangible benefit of playing a home game before a friendly crowd., common sense and c…

adjective

Not connected with or relevant to something.

Usage examples:

An irrelevant comment

adjective

Not related to what is being discussed or considered

Usage examples:

These documents are totally irrelevant to the investigation., many of these problems may simply fad…

adjective

Of or like a ghost.

Usage examples:

A spectral, menacing face

adjective

Of or concerning spectra or the spectrum.

Usage examples:

A laser is the generator of intense coherent, electromagnetic radiation in the spectral range betwe…

adjective

Relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.

Usage examples:

I'm responsible for his spiritual welfare

noun

A religious song of a kind associated with black christians of the southern us, and thought to derive from the combination of european hymns and african musical elements by black slaves.

Usage examples:

The cwmbach male voice choir entertained with a traditional repertoire of welsh hymns, spirituals a…

noun

A kind of religious song, originally developed by african-americans

Usage examples:

Religion focuses on the spiritual side of life., he’s the group’s spiritual leader., researchers ar…

adjective

Relating to a spiritual realm.

Usage examples:

The transcendental importance of each person's soul

adjective

A transcendental experience, event, object, or idea is extremely special and unusual and cannot be understood in ordinary ways

Usage examples:

A transcendental vision of the nature of god

noun

Details, considerations, or pieces of information of little importance or value.

Usage examples:

We fill our days with meaningless trivia

plural noun

Unimportant or little-known details or information

Usage examples:

This is a game for trivia buffs (= people interested in knowing little-known facts).

adjective

Unnatural or mysterious, especially in a disturbing way.

Usage examples:

Unearthly quiet

adjective

Strange and mysterious, and sometimes frightening

Usage examples:

The streetlights cast an unearthly glow in the thick fog., i was awakened at some unearthly hour by…

adjective

(of an idea, quality, or feeling) not having a tangible or visible form.

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Claims to knowledge of an unembodied consciousness

adjective

Lacking in importance or significance.

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Trivial and unimportant details

adjective

Not important

Usage examples:

The money we lost is relatively unimportant, but the emotional stress of being robbed is hard to ge…

adjective

Having little or no solidity, reality, or factual basis.

Usage examples:

A pretty if unsubstantial cubist composition

adjective

Pale and thin or weak

Usage examples:

A wraithlike figure in a grey floating dress, his face is now more gaunt and wraithlike than ever.