| Main Entry: | matter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | substance |
Synonyms: |
amount, being, body, constituents, corporeality, corporeity, element, entity, individual, material, materialness, object, phenomenon, physical world, protoplasm, quantity, stuff, substantiality, sum, thing |
Antonyms: |
nothing, nothingness, zero |
| Main Entry: | matter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concern, issue |
Synonyms: |
affair, bag, business, circumstance, episode, event, goings-on, incident, job, lookout, nub, occurrence, proceeding, question, shooting match, situation, subject, thing, topic, transaction, undertaking |
| Main Entry: | matter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | subject, thesis |
Synonyms: |
argument, context, focus, head, interest, motif, motive, point, purport, resolution, sense, subject matter, substance, text, theme, topic |
| Main Entry: | matter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | significance, meaning |
Synonyms: |
amount, body, burden, consequence, content, core, extent, gist*, import, importance, magnitude, meat, moment, neighborhood, note, order, pith, range, sense, substance, text, tune, upshot, vicinity, weight |
Antonyms: |
insignificance, meaninglessness |
| Main Entry: | matter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty, problem |
Synonyms: |
circumstance, complication, distress, grievance, perplexity, predicament, to-do, trouble, upset, worry |
| Main Entry: | matter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | secretion of a sore |
Synonyms: |
discharge, infection, maturation, purulence, pus, suppuration, ulceration |
| Main Entry: | matter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be of consequence, importance |
Synonyms: |
affect, be important, be of value, be substantive, carry weight, count, cut ice, express, have influence, imply, import, involve, make a difference, mean, mean something, signify, value, weigh |
| Main Entry: | amount |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whole effect |
Synonyms: |
body, burden, core, full value, import, matter, purport, result, sense, significance, substance, thrust, upshot, value |
| Notes: | use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money |
| Main Entry: | article |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | section of document |
Synonyms: |
branch, chapter, clause, detail, division, element, head, heading, item, matter, paragraph, part, passage, piece, point, portion, provision |
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bulk; central portion |
Synonyms: |
assembly, basis, bed, box, chassis, core, corpus, crux, essence, frame, fuselage, gist, gravamen, groundwork, hull, main part, majority, mass, material, matter, pith, skeleton, staple, substance, substructure, sum, tenor, total, trunk, whole |
Antonyms: |
nothing, nothingness |