Meaning & Definition of Material in English

1. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object

• "Coal is a hard black material"

• "Wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"

2. Information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form

• "The archives provided rich material for a definitive biography"

3. Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

• "The fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"

• "Woven cloth originated in mesopotamia around 5000 bc"

• "She measured off enough material for a dress"

4. Things needed for doing or making something

• "Writing materials"

• "Useful teaching materials"

5. A person judged suitable for admission or employment

• "He was university material"

• "She was vice-presidential material"

1. Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests

• "Material possessions"

• "Material wealth"

• "Material comforts"

2. Derived from or composed of matter

• "The material universe"

3. Directly relevant to a matter especially a law case

• "His support made a material difference"

• "Evidence material to the issue at hand"

• "Facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts"

• "A material witness"

4. Concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being

• "Material needs"

• "The moral and material welfare of all good citizens"- t.roosevelt

5. Having material or physical form or substance

• "That which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - benjamin jowett

6. Having substance or capable of being treated as fact

• Not imaginary

• "The substantial world"

• "A mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"

• "Most ponderous and substantial things"- shakespeare