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Adjective: immaterial  ,i-mu'teer-ee-ul
  1. Not pertinent to the matter under consideration
    "the price was immaterial";
    - extraneous, impertinent, orthogonal
     
  2. (often followed by 'to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other
    "whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial";
    - indifferent
     
  3. Of no importance or relevance especially to a law case
    "an objection that is immaterial after the fact"
     
  4. Without material form or substance
    "an immaterial spirit";
    - incorporeal
     
  5. Not consisting of matter
    "ghosts and other immaterial entities"; "immaterial apparitions";
    - nonmaterial

See also: beside the point, bodiless, corporality, corporeality, discorporate, disembodied, insubstantial, intangible, irrelevant, materiality, nonphysical, physicalness, spiritual, unbodied, unembodied, unimportant, unreal, unsubstantial

Antonym: material

Encyclopedia: Immaterial