Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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immaterial

UK /ˌɪ.məˈtɪə.ɹɪ.əl/ · US /ˌɪ.məˈtɪ.ɹi.əl/ adjective, noun

Forms immaterials

  1. adjective Having no matter or substance; incorporeal. “Some believe that because ghosts are immaterial, they can pass through walls.”
  2. adjective Of the nature of the soul or spirit; spiritual.
  3. adjective Of no importance; inconsequential, insignificant, unimportant.
  4. adjective (rare) Having or seeming to have very little substance; insubstantial, slight.
  5. adjective (chiefly law) Especially of evidence; chiefly followed by to: not associated in any way that is important or useful to the context being discussed; irrelevant. “Objection, your Honour! The defendant’s criminal record is immaterial to this case.”
  6. noun (countable, chiefly in the plural) A being or entity having no matter or substance.
  7. noun (countable, chiefly in the plural) A thing which is abstract or intangible; (uncountable) chiefly preceded by the: things which are abstract or intangible considered collectively.

Synonyms

intangible nonmaterial unmaterial airy aery ethereal diaphanous insubstantial tenuous unreal unsubstantial base contemptible floccinaucinihilipilificatious foolish for the birds futile frivolous idle ignorable incorporeal extraneous impertinent orthogonal indifferent

Antonyms

corporeal material tangible actual bodily choical concrete hylic hylical meaty physical real

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English immaterial, inmateriall (“incorporeal; spiritual”), from Middle French immateriel (“not material”) (modern French immatériel), and from its etymon Medieval Latin immāteriālis (“not material”), from Latin im- (a variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’)) + māteriālis (“made of matter, material”) (from māteria (“matter, substance, material”) (from māter, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr, + ia) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship)). The English word is analysable as im- + material.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied.
  2. adjective Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does so or not.

Etymology [Pref. im- not + material: cf. F. immatériel.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “immaterial”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “immaterial” (best matches first).