Word Meanings - MATERIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter. Material cause. See under Cause. -- Material evidence , evidence which conduces to the proof or disproof of a relevant hypothesis. Wharton. Syn. -- Corporeal; bodily;

Additional info about word: MATERIAL

Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter. Material cause. See under Cause. -- Material evidence , evidence which conduces to the proof or disproof of a relevant hypothesis. Wharton. Syn. -- Corporeal; bodily; important; weighty; momentous; essential. (more info) 1. Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies. The material elements of the universe. Whewell. 2. Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts. 3. Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important. Discourse, which was always material, never trifling. Evelyn. I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose. Locke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MATERIAL)

• Bodily
• Collectively
• wholly
• summarily
• unitedly
• compactedly
• together
• corporeal
• fleshy
• material
• physical
• Consistency
• Consistence
• congruity
• composition
• substance
• amalgamation
• compound
• mass
• density
• solidity
• closeness
• compactness
• coherence
• uniformity
• harmony
• analogy
• proportion
• Corporal
• fleshly
• Elementary
• Physical
• natural
• elementary
• primary
• rudimental
• simple
• inchoate
• compo
• constituent
• ultimate
• Important
• Significant
• expressive
• relevant
• main
• leading
• considerable
• great
• dignified
• influential
• weighty
• momentous
• grave
• essential

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MATERIAL)

• Resolve
• analyze

Related words: (words related to MATERIAL)

• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• INCHOATE
  Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. -- In"cho*ate*ly, adv. Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. Raleigh.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• CORPOREALITY
  The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.
• COMPONENT
  Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent. The component parts of natural bodies. Sir I. Newton.
• RELEVANTLY
  In a relevant manner.
• COMPOSURE
  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• CONGRUITY
  Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• ULTIMATE
  come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same 1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final. My harbor, and my ultimate repose. Milton. Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• ANTEPENULTIMATE
  Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• POT LEAD
  Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• HYPERPHYSICAL
  Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural. Those who do not fly to some hyperphysical hypothesis. Sir W. Hamilton.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some