Material Synonyms and Antonyms

mə-tîrē-əl
Matter
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. matter
  2. substance
  3. body
  4. corporeality
  5. stuff
Composed of matter
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. physical
  2. corporeal
  3. tangible
  4. palpable
  5. sensible
  6. substantial
  7. concrete
  8. banausic
  9. objective
  10. bodily
  11. bourgeois
  12. phenomenal
  13. essential
  14. faustian
  15. important
  16. materialistic
  17. mechanical
  18. momentous
  19. pertinent
  20. philistine
  21. ponderable
  22. pragmatic
  23. relevant
  24. utilitarian
Antonyms:
  1. incorporeal
  2. insubstantial
  3. immaterial
The basic substance or essential elements of character that qualify a person for a specified role
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. stuff
  2. timber
Large in quantity
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. substantial
  2. important
  3. considerable
  4. big
  5. consequential
  6. historic
  7. large
  8. meaningful
  9. monumental
  10. notable
  11. significant
  12. real
Antonyms:
  1. unimportant
  2. immaterial
  3. insignificant
  4. irrelevant
  5. unsubstantial
Of or preoccupied with material rather than spiritual or intellectual things
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. materialistic
  2. sensual
Antonyms:
  1. mental
  2. abstract
  3. intangible
  4. incorporeal
  5. spiritual
  6. ethereal
Related to the matter at hand
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. relevant
  2. applicable
  3. apposite
  4. apropos
  5. germane
  6. pertinent
Being both relevant and consequential; crucial:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. relevant
Synonyms:
(Verb)
  1. hypostatize
  2. materialize
  3. reify

Words Related to Material

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Material Sentence Examples

  • All scientific material from the past is making its way online.

  • She collected a handful of the material in modest protest.

  • She had nothing material to report.

  • I'm not about to waste my best material on a machine!

  • Katie found some material to match and made quilts for the cribs.

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