Definitions for material

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material ma·te·ri·al

Spelling: [muh-teer-ee-uh l]

IPA: /məˈtɪər i əl/

Material is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 381 anagrams from letters in material (aaeilmrt).

Definitions for material

noun

1. the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed:
2. anything that serves as crude or raw matter to be used or developed:
3. any constituent element.
4. a textile fabric:
5. a group of ideas, facts, data, etc., that may provide the basis for or be incorporated into some integrated work:
6. materials, the articles or apparatus needed to make or do something:
7. a person considered as having qualities suited to a particular sphere of activity:

adjective

1. formed or consisting of matter; physical; corporeal:
2. relating to, concerned with, or involving matter:
3. pertaining to the physical rather than the spiritual or intellectual aspect of things:
4. pertaining to or characterized by an undue interest in corporeal things; unspiritual.
5. of substantial import; of much consequence; important:
6. pertinent or essential (usually followed by to):
7. Law. likely to influence the determination of a case:
8. Philosophy. of or relating to matter as distinguished from form.

Origin of material

1300-50; Middle English Late Latin māteriālis of, belonging to matter. See matter, -al¹

Examples for material

This material has been reviewed by the CIA to prevent the disclosure of classified information.

To the material alone we are in the habit of ascribing power.

The comedian was right to call out Bill Cosby, but his material is littered with jokes about rape.

But where the material and the moral exist together, what is to happen then?

While Kalman tends to mine the past for material, she is as irreverent as she is sentimental.

There is a refuge for him, a defence, a safeguard which no material attack can break down.

The Ark of God would bear them safely when all material help failed.

As to the spiritual there could be a question; as to the material there could be none.

The material (i.e. the slurs) generally gets inserted into other, larger pieces about policy debates.

The problem, of course, is that politicized ideas—religious and otherwise—are entangled with material problems.