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| Main Entry: | immaterial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irrelevant |
| Synonyms: | extraneous, foreign, impertinent, inapplicable, inappropriate, inconsequential, inconsiderate, insignificant, meaningless, trifling, trivial, unimportant, unnecessary, inapposite, inconsiderable, inessential, irrelative, matter of indifference, no big deal, no never mind, of no account, of no consequence, of no importance |
| Antonyms: | essential, important, material, meaningful, relevant, substantial |
| Main Entry: | immaterial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not existing in physical form |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, celestial, dreamlike, dreamy, ethereal, ghostly, heavenly, impalpable, incorporate, incorporeal, insensible, intangible, metaphysical, psychic, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly, apparitional, asomatous, bodiless, disbodied, discarnate, disembodied, imponderable, nonmaterial, nonphysical, spiritlike, unembodied, unfleshly, wraithlike |
| Antonyms: | bodily, material, physical, real, solid, substantial |
| Main Entry: | beside the point |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not pertaining to |
| Synonyms: | extraneous, immaterial, inapplicable, incidental, inconsequential, insignificant, irrelevant, pointless, unimportant, unrelated, wide of the mark, beside the question, nihil ad rem, not at issue, not important, not to the purpose, off the subject, wide of the point |
| Main Entry: | dreamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusory, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, marvelous, misty, musing, mythical, nightmarish, otherworldly, out of this world, pensive, preoccupied, quixotic, shadowy, soothing, speculative, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vague, visionary, whimsical, introvertive, lulling, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, relaxing |
| Antonyms: | horrible, terrible, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | inadmissible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not appropriate |
| Synonyms: | ill-favored, ill-timed, immaterial, improper, inappropriate, inapt, incompetent, inept, irrelevant, malapropos, objectionable, unacceptable, unbecoming, undesirable, unfit, unqualified, unreasonable, unsatisfactory, unseemly, unsuited, unwanted, unwelcome, exceptionable, unallowable |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, admissible, allowable, appropriate |
| Main Entry: | inapplicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not relevant |
| Synonyms: | extraneous, foreign, garbage*, immaterial, impertinent, inappropriate, inapt, inconsistent, irrelevant, remote, unsuitable, unsuited, inapposite, inappurtenant, inapropos, irrelative |
| Antonyms: | applicable, related, relevant, suitable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inconsequential/inconsiderable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of no significance |
| Synonyms: | casual, dinky*, exiguous, immaterial, inadequate, insignificant, insufficient, light, little, measly, minor, negligible, paltry, petty, picayune, puny, runt, scanty, skimpy, small, small-time*, trifling, trivial, two-bit*, unimportant, worthless, entry-level, inappreciable, inconsequent, shoestring*, small potatoes, unconsidered, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | consequential, considerable, important, significant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insignificant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not important; of no consequence |
| Synonyms: | casual, immaterial, inconsequential, infinitesimal, irrelevant, lesser, light, lightweight*, little, meager, meaningless, minimal, minor, minuscule, minute, negligible, nondescript, nonessential, nugatory, paltry, petty, pointless, scanty, secondary, senseless, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant, unsubstantial, inappreciable, inconsiderable, minim, not worth mentioning, purportless |
| Antonyms: | consequential, important, significant, substantial, valuable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insubstantial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, imaginary |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, chimerical, decrepit, ephemeral, false, fanciful, feeble, flimsy, fly-by-night*, fragile, frail, idle, illusory, immaterial, incorporeal, infirm, intangible, metaphysical, petty, poor, puny, slender, slight, tenuous, thin, unreal, unsound, unsubstantial, imponderable, too little too late |
| Antonyms: | real, strong, substantial |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irrelevant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beside the point |
| Synonyms: | extraneous, foreign, garbage, immaterial, impertinent, inapplicable, inappropriate, inapt, inconsequential, insignificant, out of order, outside, pointless, remote, trivial, unconnected, unimportant, unnecessary, unrelated, inapposite, inappurtenant, inapropos, inconsequent, not connected with, not germane, not pertaining to, off the point, off the topic, out of place, unapt, without reference |
| Antonyms: | appropriate, necessary, pertinent, related, relevant |
| Main Entry: | metaphysical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not physical; without physical presence |
| Synonyms: | abstract, abstruse, deep, difficult, esoteric, eternal, fundamental, high-flown, ideal, immaterial, impalpable, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, intellectual, mystical, philosophical, preternatural, profound, recondite, spiritual, superhuman, superior, supernatural, theoretical, transcendental, unearthly, universal, unreal, unsubstantial, bodiless, discarnate, jesuitic, nonmaterial, nonphysical, numinous, oversubtle, supermundane, suprahuman, supramundane, supranatural, unfleshly, unphysical |
| Antonyms: | concrete, material, objective, physical, real, solid, substantial |
| Main Entry: | neither here nor there |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irrelevant |
| Synonyms: | beside the point, extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, inconsequential, pointless, trivial, unconnected, unimportant, not connected with, not germane, not pertaining to, off the point, off the topic |
| Main Entry: | nonexistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictional, not real |
| Synonyms: | absent, airy, baseless, blank, chimerical, dead, defunct, departed, dreamlike, dreamy, empty, ethereal, extinct, flimsy, gone, groundless, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, insubstantial, legendary, lost, missing, mythical, negative, null, null and void*, shadowy, tenuous, unreal, unsubstantial, vacant, vague, vaporous, void, extinguished, fancied, few and far between, gossamery, hallucinatory, imponderable, passed away, passed on, perished, ungrounded, without foundation |
| Antonyms: | actual, existing, real, true, existent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | picayune |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trivial |
| Synonyms: | diminutive, everyday, frivolous, immaterial, incidental, inconsequential, insignificant, irrelevant, little, meager, mean, meaningless, minor, minute, negligible, nonessential, paltry, petty, piddling*, puny, slight, small, superficial, trifling, trite, unimportant, inconsiderable, of no account |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | psychic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extrasensory in perception |
| Synonyms: | cerebral, clairvoyant, immaterial, impressible, impressionable, intellectual, mental, metaphysical, mystic, occult, preternatural, psychological, responsive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, spiritual, supernatural, susceptible, unworldly, analytic, intellective, psychal, psychical, psychogenic, sensile, supersensible, supersensitive, supersensory, supersensual, susceptive, telekinetic, telepathic, transmundane |
| Main Entry: | spiritual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | religious, otherworldly |
| Synonyms: | airy, devotional, divine, ethereal, ghostly, holy, immaterial, incorporeal, intangible, metaphysical, platonic, pure, rarefied, refined, sacred, supernal, asomatous, discarnate, disembodied, extramundane, nonmaterial, nonphysical, unfleshly, unphysical |
| Antonyms: | bodily, irreligious, irreverent, physical, unspiritual |
| Main Entry: | trivial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not important |
| Synonyms: | atomic, beside the point*, commonplace, diminutive, evanescent, everyday, flimsy, frivolous, immaterial, incidental, inconsequential, insignificant, irrelevant, little, meager, mean, meaningless, microscopic, minor, minute, momentary, negligible, nonessential, nugatory, paltry, petty, piddling*, puny, scanty, skin-deep*, slight, small, superficial, trifling, trite, unimportant, valueless, vanishing, worthless, inappreciable, inconsiderable, of no account |
| Antonyms: | consequential, important, significant, useful, valuable, weighty, worthwhile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unimportant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of no real worth, value |
| Synonyms: | beside the point*, casual, frivolous, frothy, immaterial, inconsequential, indifferent, insignificant, irrelevant, little, meaningless, minor, minute, negligible, nonessential, nothing*, nugatory, null, paltry, petty, picayune, second-rate*, slight, trifling, trivial, unnecessary, useless, worthless, zero*, zilch*, zip*, inconsiderable, low-ranking, of no account, of no consequence, shoestring* |
| Antonyms: | big, important, relevant, serious, useful, worthwhile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unreal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, make-believe; hypothetical |
| Synonyms: | aerial, artificial, chimerical, delusive, dreamlike, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fictitious, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, impalpable, insincere, insubstantial, intangible, legendary, misleading, mock, mythical, nebulous, nonexistent, ostensible, pretended, romantic, seeming, sham*, theoretical, unbelievable, unsubstantial, visionary, fictive, figmental, hallucinatory, invented, notional, phantasmagoric, reachy, storybook, suppositious, supposititious |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inconsequential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insignificant |
| Synonyms: | casual, dinky, exiguous, immaterial, inadequate, insignificant, insufficient, light, little, measly, minor, negligible, paltry, petty, picayune, puny, runt, scanty, skimpy, small, small-time, trifling, trivial, unimportant, worthless, big zero, entry level, inappreciable, inconsequent, inconsiderable, no biggie, shoestring, shrimp, small potatoes, two bit, unconsidered, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | important, significant |
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