MATERIAL


Meaning of MATERIAL in English

■ noun

1》 the matter from which a thing is or can be made.

↘items needed for an activity.

↘a person of a specified quality or suitability: he's not really Olympic ~.

2》 information or ideas for use in creating a book, performance, or other work.

3》 cloth or fabric.

■ adjective

1》 denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit: the ~ world.

↘concerned with the matter of reasoning, not its form.

2》 significant; important: the insects did not do any ~ damage.

↘(often ~ to ) relevant: information that could be ~ to a murder inquiry.

Derivatives

~ity noun ( plural ~ities ).

Origin

ME: from late L. ~is , from L. materia 'matter'.

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