Dictionary Entry
material
material is a 8-letter English word with 17 senses as adjective, noun, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
- 2adjective
Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.
- 3adjective
Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.
- 4adjective
Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.
- 5noun
The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.
- 6transitive verb
To form from matter; to materialize.
- 7noun
artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
"the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"
"woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"
- 8noun
things needed for doing or making something
"writing materials"
"useful teaching materials"
- 9noun
information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form
"the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography"
- 10noun
a person judged suitable for admission or employment
"he was university material"
"she was vice-presidential material"
- 11noun
the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
"coal is a hard black material"
"wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
Synonyms
- 12adjective
having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary- Shakespeare
"the substantial world"
"a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"
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- 13adjective
derived from or composed of matter
"the material universe"
- 14adjective
having material or physical form or substance - Benjamin Jowett
"that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible"
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- 15adjective
directly relevant to a matter especially a law case
"his support made a material difference"
"evidence material to the issue at hand"
- 16adjective
concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being- T.Roosevelt
"material needs"
"the moral and material welfare of all good citizens"
- 17adjective
concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests
"material possessions"
"material wealth"
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