material
Meaning of material
noun
- the matter from which a thing is or can be made.
goats can eat more or less any plant material
highly flammable materials
- information or ideas for use in creating a book or other work.
his colonial experiences gave him material
- cloth or fabric.
a piece of dark material
dress materials
- denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit.
the material world
- significant; important.
the insects did not do any material damage to the crop
late Middle English (in the sense ‘relating to matter’): from late Latin materialis, adjective from Latin materia ‘matter’.
Information about material
- The plural form of material is: materials.
- Languages in which material is used:
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GalicianHyphenation of material
ma-te-rial
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- material is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
material synonyms
Meaning corporeal:
Meaning substantial:
Meaning stuff:
Meaning fabric:
Meaning a particular substance:
Meaning a particular kind of matter with uniform properties:
Meaning an agency or means of doing something:
Meaning facts provided or learned about something or someone:
Meaning facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis:
Meaning a thing that is known or proved to be true:
Meaning the practice or science of collecting and analysing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample:
Meaning the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid:
Meaning a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action:
Meaning an individual fact or item:
Meaning a detail:
Meaning the part of a picture, scene, or design that forms a setting for the main figures or objects, or appears furthest from the viewer:
Meaning a brief record of points or ideas written down as an aid to memory:
Meaning material that provides official information or evidence or that serves as a record:
Meaning a piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record:
Meaning material manufactured in thin sheets from the pulp of wood or other fibrous substances, used for writing, drawing, or printing on, or as wrapping material:
Meaning information:
Meaning details:
Meaning information about a subject, especially if not generally known:
Meaning a substance, such as mud or dust, that soils someone or something:
Meaning a type of cloth or woven fabric:
Meaning relating to the body as opposed to the mind:
Meaning perceptible by touch:
Meaning of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one:
Meaning of or concerned with material values or ordinary life rather than a spiritual existence:
Meaning relating to humankind's material existence as distinct from a spiritual or heavenly one:
Meaning relating to worldly as opposed to spiritual affairs; secular:
Meaning existing in a material or physical form; not abstract:
Meaning firm and stable in shape; not liquid or fluid:
Meaning not connected with religious or spiritual matters:
Meaning put (something) down gently or carefully:
Meaning belonging to this world as contrasted with a better or more spiritual one:
Meaning sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy:
Meaning important, serious, or significant:
Meaning of great significance or value:
Meaning important; significant:
Meaning of great importance or significance, especially in having a bearing on future events:
Meaning weighing a great deal; heavy:
Meaning absolutely necessary; essential:
Meaning absolutely necessary; extremely important:
Meaning of crucial importance:
Meaning having meaning:
material antonyms
Meaning relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things:
Meaning existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence:
Meaning lacking in importance or significance:
Meaning too small or unimportant to be worth consideration:
Meaning not important or significant:
Translation of material
- French: matériau, matériaux, matériel
- Portuguese: materiais, material
- Spanish: material
- Italian: materiale
Anagrams of material
Words that rhyme with material
rial, Arial, Incarial, actuarial, adversarial, antenarial, antifilarial, antimalarial, aquarial, bibliothecarial, bursarial, calendarial, calvarial, cancellarial, cercarial, cibarial, commentarial, commissarial, conarial, corollarial, diarial, dignitarial, estuarial, filarial, fusarial, garial, gharial, glossarial, herbarial, internarial, intranarial, kalendarial, malarial, mesoarial, metacercarial, microfilarial, miliarial, narial, nectarial, nonmalarial, nonsecretarial, notarial, oarial, ovarial, parial, polyzoarial, postmalarial, postnarial, prenarial, prothonotarial
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