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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.
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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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Then Comey released a letter 11 days before the election telling Congress that the FBI was examining new emails as part of its probe into the Clinton email matter, only to announce more than a week later that the emails turned out to be immaterial.
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A sunset over the water from 2008 is one of several seascapes that, though never dipping into sentiment, feel immaterial and lackluster, and badly need the ballast that houses and cabins provide to her best pictures.
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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.
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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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