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    ma·te·ri·al
    [məˈtirēəl]
    noun
    material (noun) · materials (plural noun)
    1. the matter from which a thing is or can be made:
      "goats can eat more or less any plant material" · "highly flammable materials" · "materials such as brass"
      • (materials)
        things needed for an activity:
        "cleaning materials"
      • a person of a specified quality or suitability:
        "he's not really Olympic material"
    2. facts, information, or ideas for use in creating a book or other work:
      "there is much good material here for priests to use in sermons"
      • items, especially songs or jokes, comprising a performer's act:
        "a band playing original material"
    3. cloth or fabric:
      "a piece of dark material" · "dress materials"
    adjective
    material (adjective)
    1. denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit:
      "the material world" · "moral and material support"
      • concerned with physical needs or desires:
        "material living standards have risen"
      • concerned with the matter of reasoning, not its form:
        "political conflict lacks mathematical or material certitude"
    2. important; essential; relevant:
      "the insects did not do any material damage to the crop"
      • law
        (of evidence or a fact) significant, influential, or relevant, especially to the extent of determining a cause or affecting a judgment:
        "information that could be material to a murder inquiry"
    Origin
    late Middle English (in the sense ‘relating to matter’): from late Latin materialis, adjective from Latin materia ‘matter’.
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    Similar and Opposite Words
    noun
    1. the matter from which a thing is or can be made:
      matter
      substance
      stuff
      medium
    2. facts, information, or ideas for use in creating a book or other work:
      information
      data
      facts
      facts and figures
      statistics
      evidence
      subject matter
      ideas
      details
      particulars
      background
      notes
      documentation
      documents
      papers
      info
      deets
      dope
      lowdown
      dirt
      gen
      • cloth or fabric:
        fabric
        cloth
        stuff
        textiles
      adjective
      1. denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit:
        physical
        corporeal
        tangible
        nonspiritual
        mundane
        worldly
        earthly
        temporal
        concrete
        real
        solid
        substantial
        secular
        lay
        sublunary
        Opposite:
        spiritual
        abstract
      2. important; essential; relevant:
        significant
        major
        important
        consequential
        momentous
        weighty
        vital
        essential
        key
        meaningful
        of consequence
        Opposite:
        unimportant
        insignificant
        inconsequential
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