Definition of immaterial
1 : not consisting of matter : incorporeal
2 : of no substantial consequence : unimportant
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Examples of immaterial in a Sentence
Whether or not he intended to cause problems is immaterial.
The fact that she is a woman is immaterial and irrelevant.
Recent Examples of immaterial from the Web
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But there is a revolution and a revelation lurking in these childlike elements—a demonstration that the immaterial stuff of time can be evoked through the most material of forms.
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Whether Israeli leaders actually have blueprints for the Third Temple or not is immaterial.
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That Jones batted .382 over the nine games starting that day is immaterial to him.
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An internal investigation at Hain Celestial Group found past errors in its accounting were immaterial.
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That sum is, in the overall scope of things, mostly immaterial for an athletic department with revenues of $125 million.
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The nature of Trump’s conversation with Comey about Flynn, while far from immaterial, is secondary.
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Green said Comey's anticipated congressional testimony on Thursday is immaterial — the president's behavior, not Comey's, is the issue.
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Yet in his oral history, former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum argued that the investigator’s character is immaterial.
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Origin and Etymology of immaterial
Middle English immaterial, from Late Latin immaterialis, from Latin in- + Late Latin materialis material
IMMATERIAL Defined for English Language Learners
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: not important or significant
IMMATERIAL Defined for Kids
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: not important : insignificant The new evidence is immaterial.
Law Dictionary
immaterial
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: not essential, pertinent, or of consequence the jury could have discounted the medical history evidence, or while accepting its accuracy, found it immaterial — Willett v. State, 911 S.W.2d 937 (1995) — compare irrelevant
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