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Antonyms for material
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  1. materialnoun

    Significant.

    Antonyms:
    immaterial

  2. materialadjective

    You'll need about a yard of material to make this.

    Antonyms:
    spiritual

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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, unsubstantial

    Synonyms:
    bodily, corporal, corporeal, natural, physical, sensible, tangible, visible

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. materialnoun

    Antonyms:
    work, production, design

    Synonyms:
    substance, stuff

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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, intangible

    Synonyms:
    hooey, clobber, poppycock, cloth, fabric, stuff, stuff and nonsense, textile

  2. materialnoun

    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"

    Antonyms:
    mental, nonphysical, unworldly, immaterial, intangible, nonmaterial

    Synonyms:
    fabric, textile, stuff, cloth

  3. fabric, 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"

    Antonyms:
    intangible, immaterial, unworldly, mental, nonphysical, nonmaterial

    Synonyms:
    framework, fabric, textile, stuff, cloth

  4. materialnoun

    things needed for doing or making something

    "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials"

    Antonyms:
    mental, immaterial, unworldly, intangible, nonmaterial, nonphysical

    Synonyms:
    fabric, textile, stuff, cloth

  5. materialadjective

    a person judged suitable for admission or employment

    "he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material"

    Antonyms:
    mental, nonphysical, unworldly, nonmaterial, intangible, immaterial

    Synonyms:
    fabric, textile, stuff, cloth

  6. materialadjective

    concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests

    "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts"

    Antonyms:
    immaterial, mental, nonphysical, unworldly, intangible, nonmaterial

    Synonyms:
    corporeal, substantial, real

  7. materialadjective

    derived from or composed of matter

    "the material universe"

    Antonyms:
    immaterial, mental, nonmaterial, nonphysical, intangible, unworldly

    Synonyms:
    corporeal, substantial, real

  8. materialadjective

    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, nonmaterial

    Synonyms:
    corporeal, substantial, real

  9. materialadjective

    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, intangible

    Synonyms:
    corporeal, substantial, real

  10. corporeal, 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, mental

    Synonyms:
    somatic, bodily, substantial, real, corporal, corporeal

  11. substantial, 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, intangible

    Synonyms:
    actual, corporeal, veridical, real(a), substantial, significant, hearty, satisfying, real, substantive, solid, literal, square, genuine, strong, tangible, existent

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  1. materialadjective

    Synonyms:
    corporeal, bodily, physical, important, essential, momentous

  2. materialnoun

    Synonyms:
    substance, matter, fabric, stuff, cloth, staple, plasma

How to use material in a sentence?

  1. Nicholas Weaver:

    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.

  2. Michael Moreau:

    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.

  3. Adam Schiff:

    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.

  4. Elizabeth Turner:

    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.

  5. Bode Berreth:

    The bullet hit him in the vest, there was some piece of material that penetrated into his left flank.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#125work
#245design
#812material
#884production
#2256mental
#3706spiritual
#3740intellectual
#4904moral
#8257invisible
#13230unreal
#18985intangible
#41631immaterial
#171361nonphysical
#231284unworldly
#244598unsubstantial
#302329nonmaterial

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