immaterial

Word family

1 UNIMPORTANTnot important in a particular situation 无关紧要的；不相关的 SYN irrelevant

If you sign a document, it is wholly immaterial whether you have read it carefully or not.

文件一经签署，是否仔细阅读过文件就完全无关紧要了。

2 formal not having a physical body or form 非实体的，无形的

our immaterial soul

我们无形的灵魂

Examples from the Corpus

immaterial• The difference in our ages was immaterial.• Of course you could also be looking for work at home, where the ability to travel to and fro is immaterial.• The content of the mathematics qualification to them is immaterial.• The nature of the seller's possession is immaterial.• Whether one agrees or disagrees with this contention is immaterial.• This may make any savings you anticipate by remortgaging immaterial in the long run.• The general opinion was that comets were immaterial, spiritual portents sent by the Creator as warnings about impending momentous events.• It is immaterial that his promise is far more valuable than the price he has asked for it.• Persons, for Descartes, are mental or immaterial thinking substances.

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BNC: 14522 COCA: 19669

immaterial

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION

VERBS

➤be, prove, seem不重要；證明無足輕重；似乎無關緊要

▸➤become變得無關緊要

ADVERB

➤completely, entirely, quite, wholly完全不重要；無足輕重

◇The condition of the car is quite immaterial as long as it works.這車只要能開就行，車況如何無所謂。

➤almost幾乎無足輕重

▸➤relatively相對不重要

PREPOSITION

➤to對⋯不重要

◇These facts are immaterial to the problem.這些事實對這個問題無關緊要。

BNC: 14522 COCA: 19669

immaterial adj.
⇨ irrelevant

BNC: 14522 COCA: 19669

immaterial

Not relevant or appropriate: irrelevant, inappropriate, unimportant...