Word Meanings - IMMATERIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
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1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does so or not. Syn. -- Unimportant; inconsequential; insignificant; inconsiderable; trifling.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMMATERIAL)
- Impassible
- Immaterial
- immortal
- Shadow
- Umbration
- reflection
- image
- sham
- unsubstantiality
- immaterial
- phantom
- attendant
- Spiritual
- Divine
- religions
- holy
- ghostly
- ethical
- incorporeal
- intellectual
Related words: (words related to IMMATERIAL)
- SHADOWY
1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - IMMATERIALIST
One who believes in or professes, immaterialism. - INTELLECTUALIST
1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism. - IMMORTALIST
One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. Jer. Taylor. - SPIRITUAL-MINDED
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. - IMMORTAL
1. Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance. Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible. 1 Tim. i. 17. For my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal - IMMATERIAL
1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does - DIVINER
1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one - SPIRITUALISTIC
Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism. - SHADOWINESS
The quality or state of being shadowy. - IMMATERIALLY
1. In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance. 2. In an unimportant manner or degree. - SHADOWISH
Shadowy; vague. Hooker. - INTELLECTUAL
1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts. 2. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; - INTELLECTUALLY
In an intellectual manner. - SPIRITUAL
1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Cor. xv. - DIVINELY
1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson. 2. By the agency or influence of God. Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay. - IMAGERY
1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. "Painted imagery." Shak. In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden. 2. Fig.: Unreal - IMMORTALIZE
1. To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever. S. Clarke. 2. To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame. Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his quilty name. T. Dawes. - INCORPOREALIST
One who believes in incorporealism. Cudworth. - FORESHADOW
To shadow or typi Dryden. - SUPERREFLECTION
The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon. - DISSHADOW
To free from shadow or shade. G. Fletcher. - OVERSHADOW
1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7. 2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence. Milton.