IMMATERIAL Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

immaterial

adjective

ˌi-mə-ˈtir-ē-əl

Definition of immaterial

as in spiritual

not composed of matter it is only possible to study immaterial forces like gravity by observing their effects on the physical world

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as in irrelevant

not having anything to do with the matter at hand while undoubtedly upsetting, that story is immaterial to the question of why you are late

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Recent Examples of immaterial The challenge was to create something that feels almost immaterial, while still making a real shoe. — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 26 May 2026 Portofiro and the baroque universe surrounding it—communists on-world, techno-fascists offplanet, and all manner of augmentoids and spooks in the immaterial planes between—can make for a dizzying read. — Alex James Kane, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 If strict fidelity gets in the way, it can be treated as immaterial. — Literary Hub, 19 May 2026 Local women are invited to share still-raw memories, to grapple together with the kinds of things that would be immaterial to the courts. — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for immaterial

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Adjective

Brands can do this by creating flexible labor models, designing spaces where workers can flourish and developing cultural and spiritual capital through local partnerships.

— Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 10 July 2026
The payments — 17 transfers of $20,000 each — were made to the son of José Almaraz, a former player described as a spiritual guide close to AFA leadership.

— Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026

Definition of spiritual

Adjective

Followers of the Abrahamic religions are supposed to treat God as immaterial and incorporeal, yet these early Yahweh worshippers imagined him as fully embodied.

— Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026
Positioned as a large-scale genre event, the series updates the legendary SFX property with a contemporary political and social edge, with Shun Oguri leading the cast as a detective hunting a seemingly incorporeal killer.

— Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026

Definition of incorporeal

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This spiritual, metaphysical, and downright weird show is ostensibly about a nun’s quest to find and destroy the Holy Grail, which will result in the deactivation of the powerful, pervasive AI that gives the series its name.

— Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 2 July 2026
In both the real and metaphysical locations of the show, the backgrounds are all painted by hand, something which was pointed out took up a lot of time due to the number of paintings in the show and due to the number of montages.

— Kambole Campbell, Variety, 25 June 2026

Definition of metaphysical

Adjective

Put simply, superheated plasma was being tested as fuel, but the temperatures melted any sort of solid container, so the experiments used nonmaterial vessels formed from extremely powerful magnetic fields.

— Werner Herzog, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
The first part of the book is committed to a ground-clearing exercise, describing the various concepts of the nonmaterial soul that feature in many different religious belief systems.

— Denis Alexander, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023

Definition of nonmaterial

Adjective

Dazzling Venus would be invisible due to its proximity to the sun.

— Joe Rao, Space.com, 4 July 2026
Developed by Giacomo Sasso, a postdoctoral researcher at Queen Mary University of London, this new tactile system allows robots to see touch in real time by instantly transforming invisible mechanical forces into vivid, dynamic color patterns.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026

Definition of invisible

Adjective

Through Latin and early Christian usage, the word took on its modern sense of an evil supernatural spirit.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
In that sense, the ultraviolence is reframed not as spectacle but as a kind of ancient supernatural force compelled to intrude upon ordinary human grief.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 July 2026

Definition of supernatural

Adjective

In Ayurveda, Prana, the life force carried by the breath, is understood to nourish both the mind and body and can be viewed as a nonphysical substance, finer than oxygen.

— Trisha Swift, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
In accounting, intangible assets are nonphysical possessions including such things as brands and intellectual property, software, mineral rights ‒ and contracts.

— Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025

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