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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (5)

1. of no importance or relevance especially to a law case;
- Example: "an objection that is immaterial after the fact"

2. without material form or substance;
- Example: "an incorporeal spirit"
[syn: incorporeal, immaterial]

3. not consisting of matter;
- Example: "immaterial apparitions"
- Example: "ghosts and other immaterial entities"
[syn: immaterial, nonmaterial]

4. not pertinent to the matter under consideration;
- Example: "an issue extraneous to the debate"
- Example: "the price was immaterial"
- Example: "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point"
[syn: extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal]

5. (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other;
- Example: "whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)"
- Example: "what others think is altogether indifferent to him"
[syn: immaterial, indifferent]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Immaterial \Im`ma*te"ri*al\ ([i^]m`m[.a]*t[=e]"r[i^]*al), a. [Pref. im- not + material: cf. F. immat['e]riel.] 1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. [1913 Webster] Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

immaterial adj 1: of no importance or relevance especially to a law case; "an objection that is immaterial after the fact" [ant: material] 2: without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit" [syn: incorporeal, immaterial] [ant: corporeal, material] 3: not consisting of matter; "immaterial apparitions"; "ghosts and other immaterial entities" [syn: immaterial, nonmaterial] [ant: material] 4: not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point" [syn: extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal] 5: (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other; "whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)"; "what others think is altogether indifferent to him" [syn: immaterial, indifferent]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

106 Moby Thesaurus words for "immaterial": adrift, aerial, airy, apparitional, asomatous, astral, back-burner, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, bodiless, celestial, decarnate, decarnated, dinky, discarnate, disembodied, dispensable, ephemeral, ethereal, evanescent, extramundane, extraneous, extrinsic, fanciful, flimsy, foreign, ghostly, heavenly, illusory, imaginary, impalpable, impertinent, imponderable, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappreciable, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, incorporate, incorporeal, inessential, inferior, insensible, insignificant, insubstantial, intangible, irrelative, irrelevant, light, little, merely nominal, metaphysical, minor, minute, negligible, nihil ad rem, nonessential, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, not at issue, not real, not vital, nugatory, occult, off the subject, otherworldly, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, petit, petty, phantom, psychic, shadowy, slight, small, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, technical, transmundane, trifling, trivial, unactual, unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied, unessential, unextended, unfleshly, unimportant, unimpressive, unnoteworthy, unphysical, unreal, unrealistic, unsolid, unsubstanced, unsubstantial, unworldly, weightless
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

IMMATERIAL. What is not essential; unimportant what is not requisite; what is informal; as, an immaterial averment, an immaterial issue. 2. When a witness deposes to something immaterial, which is false, although he is guilty of perjury in foro conscientiae, he cannot be punished for perjury. 2 Russ. on Cr. 521; 1 Hawk. b. 1, c. 69, s. 8; Bac. Ab. Perjury, A.