immaterial
adjective
[ ɪməˈtɪərɪəl ]
• unimportant under the circumstances; irrelevant.
• "the difference in our ages is immaterial"
Similar:
irrelevant,
unimportant,
inconsequential,
insignificant,
of no matter/moment,
of little account,
beside the point,
not to the point,
neither here nor there,
inapposite,
not pertinent,
not germane,
trivial,
trifling,
petty,
superficial,
peripheral,
tangential,
extraneous,
• spiritual, rather than physical.
• "we have immaterial souls"
Similar:
intangible,
incorporeal,
not material,
bodiless,
unembodied,
disembodied,
impalpable,
ethereal,
unsubstantial,
insubstantial,
airy,
aerial,
spiritual,
ghostly,
spectral,
wraithlike,
transcendental,
unearthly,
supernatural,
discarnate,
disincarnate,
unbodied,
phantasmal,
phantasmic,
Origin:
late Middle English (in immaterial (sense 2)): from late Latin immaterialis, from in- ‘not’ + materialis ‘relating to matter’.
