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not important, or not relevant- For political reasons, most senators had to vote for the bill. The fine print was immaterial to the final vote.
immaterial = not important, or not relevant
- Your intentions are immaterial to me. What is important to me is that your actions continue to hurt people.
- Truths like those can be both 'objective' and 'general,' but they are nevertheless totally immaterial to each man's existence.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- It really was immaterial whether it was Miss Kenton or a complete stranger who had walked in at that moment.Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
- "True," said Monte Cristo, "the loss of a sum of money becomes almost immaterial with a fortune such as you possess, and to one of your philosophic spirit."Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- "It's immaterial to me," she said.J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye
- "Now let's consider this calmly-" began Atticus, but Mr. Gilmer interrupted with an objection: he was not irrelevant or immaterial, but Atticus was browbeating the witness.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Slowly but surely I began to see the pattern of Atticus's questions: from questions that Mr. Gilmer did not deem sufficiently irrelevant or immaterial to object to, Atticus was quietly building up before the jury a picture of the Ewells' home life.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- "Can't see what witness's literacy has to do with the case, irrelevant'n'immaterial."Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Oh! how immaterial are all materials!Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- My pet, as I told you before Bonnie was born, it is immaterial to me whether you have one child or twenty.Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- Incompetent, immaterial, irrelevant.Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
- The city in the predawn is warm and fragrant and sleepy, and the houses on either side seem almost immaterial.Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
- Yet immaterial to our plans.R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
- Whether they had or not was immaterial; it was an opportunity to take the first step toward negotiations.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- "It is immaterial to me how you go," he said.Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
- Both bore languidly the indefinable burden of immaterial pleasures.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- If we make the latter supposition, it then becomes immaterial where the power in question is placed whether in their hands or in those of the Union.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- It was the crowning buffet, the final victory of Philistia over art, beauty, and immaterial things.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- Behold, once before you have ferried me across this water in your boat for the immaterial reward of a good deed.Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha
immaterial = not important, or not relevant
immaterial = not important, or not relevant
immaterial = not important, or not relevant
immaterial = not important, or not relevant
immaterial = unimportant
immaterial = not important, or not relevant
immaterial = not important, or not relevant
immaterial = not important