What are some opposite words for material?
Antonyms for material
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This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term material.
Wiktionary
materialnoun
Significant.
Antonyms:
immaterialmaterialadjective
You'll need about a yard of material to make this.
Antonyms:
spiritual
English Synonyms and Antonyms
material
Whatever is composed of or pertains to matter may be termed material; physical (Greek physis, nature) applies to material things considered as parts of a system or organic whole; hence, we speak of material substances, physical forces, physical laws. Bodily, corporal, and corporeal apply primarily to the human body; bodily and corporal both denote pertaining or relating to the body; corporeal signifies of the nature of or like the body; corporal is now almost wholly restricted to signify applied to or inflicted upon the body; we speak of bodily sufferings, bodily presence, corporal punishment, the corporeal frame.
Antonyms:
hyperphysical, immaterial, intangible, intellectual, invisible, mental, moral, spiritual, unreal, unsubstantialSynonyms:
bodily, corporal, corporeal, natural, physical, sensible, tangible, visible
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
materialnoun
Antonyms:
work, production, design
Matched Categories
Princeton's WordNet
material, stuffnoun
the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
"coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
Antonyms:
nonmaterial, mental, unworldly, nonphysical, immaterial, intangibleSynonyms:
hooey, clobber, poppycock, cloth, fabric, stuff, stuff and nonsense, textilematerialnoun
information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form
"the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography"
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mental, nonphysical, unworldly, immaterial, intangible, nonmaterialfabric, cloth, material, textilenoun
artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
"the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
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intangible, immaterial, unworldly, mental, nonphysical, nonmaterialmaterialnoun
things needed for doing or making something
"writing materials"; "useful teaching materials"
Antonyms:
mental, immaterial, unworldly, intangible, nonmaterial, nonphysicalmaterialadjective
a person judged suitable for admission or employment
"he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material"
Antonyms:
mental, nonphysical, unworldly, nonmaterial, intangible, immaterialmaterialadjective
concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests
"material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts"
Antonyms:
immaterial, mental, nonphysical, unworldly, intangible, nonmaterialSynonyms:
corporeal, substantial, realmaterialadjective
derived from or composed of matter
"the material universe"
Antonyms:
immaterial, mental, nonmaterial, nonphysical, intangible, unworldlySynonyms:
corporeal, substantial, realmaterialadjective
directly relevant to a matter especially a law case
"his support made a material difference"; "evidence material to the issue at hand"; "facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts"; "a material witness"
Antonyms:
intangible, immaterial, nonphysical, mental, unworldly, nonmaterialSynonyms:
corporeal, substantial, realmaterialadjective
concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being
"material needs"; "the moral and material welfare of all good citizens"- T.Roosevelt
Antonyms:
nonmaterial, unworldly, immaterial, nonphysical, mental, intangibleSynonyms:
corporeal, substantial, realcorporeal, materialadjective
having material or physical form or substance
"that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett
Antonyms:
nonphysical, immaterial, unworldly, intangible, nonmaterial, mentalSynonyms:
somatic, bodily, substantial, real, corporal, corporealsubstantial, real, materialadjective
having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
"the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare
Antonyms:
nonphysical, mental, unworldly, nonmaterial, immaterial, intangibleSynonyms:
actual, corporeal, veridical, real(a), substantial, significant, hearty, satisfying, real, substantive, solid, literal, square, genuine, strong, tangible, existent
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
How to use material in a sentence?
All this is to saythat there is relatively high confidence that these files contain genuine NSA material, without a doubt, they’re the keys to the kingdom.
Our first indication of whether we were successful in collecting a sample will come on October 21 when we downlink the back-away movie from the spacecraft, if TAG made a significant disturbance of the surface, we likely collected a lot of material.
This is, I think, the result of a president who is not prepared for these kind of negotiations, a staff that is not well-prepared and that is essentially flying by the seat of its pants, and it has real-world consequences, those reactors continue to spin on, producing more material that can threaten us and our allies.
I serendipitously came across a few very rare examples of the material during my unrelated PhD research, long ago, on fossil microbial reefs, when I became a professor and had my own grants, I was able to return to the field sites and collect more material so that I had a more robust collection to work from.
The bullet hit him in the vest, there was some piece of material that penetrated into his left flank.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#125 | work | |
#245 | design | |
#812 | material | |
#884 | production | |
#2256 | mental | |
#3706 | spiritual | |
#3740 | intellectual | |
#4904 | moral | |
#8257 | invisible | |
#13230 | unreal | |
#18985 | intangible | |
#41631 | immaterial | |
#171361 | nonphysical | |
#231284 | unworldly | |
#244598 | unsubstantial | |
#302329 | nonmaterial |
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