material

Plural: materials

Noun

• The substance from which something is made or can be made.
• the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
  • "coal is a hard black material"
• information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form
  • "the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography"
• artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
  • "she measured off enough material for a dress"
• things needed for doing or making something
  • "writing materials"
  • "useful teaching materials"
• a person judged suitable for admission or employment
  • "he was university material"
  • "she was vice-presidential material"
• A basic matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made.
• A person, or people collectively, who are qualified or suited for a certain position or activity.
• Apparatus for doing or making something.
• Something (as data, observations, perceptions or ideas) that may be incorporated, elaborated or otherwise reworked into a finished form or new form, or may serve as the basis for arriving at interpretations, judgments or conclusions.
• Cloth to be made into a garment; woven fabric.
• The elements, constituents or substance of which something physical or non-physical composed of or can be made of.
• An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.
• All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard, excluding the king.
• The ingredients for making whisky punch.
• The materiel of an army.
• Things that are material.

Adjective Satellite

• concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests
  • "material possessions"
  • "material wealth"
  • "material comforts"
• concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being; ; - T.Roosevelt
  • "material needs"
  • "the moral and material welfare of all good citizens"

Adjective

• derived from or composed of matter
  • "the material universe"
• directly relevant to a matter especially a law case
  • "his support made a material difference"
  • "evidence material to the issue at hand"
  • "facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts"
  • "a material witness"
• having material or physical form or substance; - Benjamin Jowett
• having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; ; ; - Shakespeare

Adj

• Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
• Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
• Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
• Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.
• Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic.
• Full of substance or otherwise meaning.
• In an important degree.

Verb

• To form from matter; to materialize.

Examples

• a piece of material
• Asphalt, composed of oil and sand, is a widely used material for roads.
• boy/girlfriend material
• Don't let material concerns get in the way of living a happy life.
• found a material difference between two things
• He had all the MATERIAL for a bingo on his rack, if only he could arrange it.
• interested only in material progress
• marriage material
• material cause
• material needs
• teaching materials
• the material aspect of being
• The material of his character was basically good.
• the material world
• The solid materials of the mixture will settle to the bottom of the container.
• This compound has a number of interesting material properties.
• This is the most material fact in this lawsuit.
• We have lots of presidential material in various public offices.
• We were a warm-up act at the time; we didn't have enough original material to headline.
• You'll need about a yard of material to make this.
• You've made several material contributions to this project.

Synonyms

cloth, corporeal, fabric, real, stuff, substantial, textile, bulky, massive, material, matts, meaty, raw material, solid

Antonyms

immaterial, incorporeal, insubstantial, spiritual

Related Words

materiel, matter

Anagrams of material