matter

n

1. substance, material, stuff, materiality, medium, something, body; protoplasm, plasma, element; flesh, meat, marrow, sum and substance.

2. pus, suppuration, purulence, discharge; ooze, juice, sap, latex, milk; mucus, phlegm, grume, gore; All Pathol. gleet, sanies, ichor, leukorrhea.

3. situation, affair, state; business, proceeding, transaction, doing; thing, concern, concernment; event, circumstance, happening, happenstance, occasion; episode, incident, adventure, experience; particular, phenomenon, fact, article, case, instance.

4. subject, topic, focus, text, content; essence, gist, purport; point, issue, question, case, concern; thesis, motif, theme.

5. amount, extent, measure, quantity, sum; magnitude, mass, bulk, size.

6. consequence, significance, importance, moment, weight, pith; import, implication, signification, intention; meaning, tenor, drift, purport, sense.

7. difficulty, trouble, distress, ailment, worry; embarrassment, predicament, plight, pass, strait, pinch, mess; quandary, dilemma, problem, puzzle, perplexity, enigma.

8. ground, cause, basis, reason, rationale, Sl. what for; explanation, excuse, pretext, pretense; the why, the wherefore, the why and wherefore, Inf. the idea, Sl. the big idea.

9. as a matter of fact

actually, in reality, really, truly, veritably; truthfully, in truth, to tell the truth; in point of fact, in fact, in effect, Fr. au fait.

10. no matter

it makes no difference, it is unimportant, it doesn't count; pay it no mind, don't give it another thought, don't bother with it; don't worry about it, never mind, forget it, Inf. drop it.

v

11. signify, import, be of importance, purport, bespeak; indicate, imply, mean, connote, denote, express; weigh, carry weight, count, make a difference, make no difference, tell, amount to.