material

n

1. substance, matter, stuff, something, materiality, medium; meat, marrow, sum and substance; raw material, stock, staple, store, goods; building blocks, bricks and mortar, sticks and stones, lath and plaster; earth, clay, cement, concrete; lumber, timber, wood.

2. element, component, constituent, unit, ingredient; feature, part, parcel, factor, piece, portion, item.

3. fabric, cloth, textile, texture, weave, tissue; nap-ery, rag, weft, woof.

4. data, facts, information, figures; notes, notabilia, documents, papers.

5. materials

apparatus, articles, supplies, resources, means; tools, utensils, instruments, implements, equipment, plant; gear, tackle, outfit, rigging.

adj

6. corporeal, corporal, physical, bodily, somatic, hylic; real, solid, concrete, substantial, substantive; palpable, tangible, sensible, touchable, ponderable, appreciable.

7. unspiritual, materialistic, Philos. hylozoistic, non-spiritual, nonpastoral; worldly, mundane, temporal, earthly, earthy, external; secular, lay, worldly-minded, earthly-minded, carnal-minded, carnal.

8. important, consequential, momentous, weighty, considerable, significant; great, grave, serious, big; of importance, of interest, of concern, of note; vital, essential, indispensable; evidential, indicative, attesta-tive, convincing, telling, pointing.

9. material to

pertinent, relevant, applicable, apropos; appertaining, pertaining, apposite, germane; applying, involving, belonging, in point.