Matter

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English

Noun

Matter (countable and uncountable; plural Matters)
  1. (physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume.
    • 1924: ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001.
      Parmenides seems to fasten on that which is one in definition, Melissus on that which is one in matter,
  2. (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. (Non-antimatter matter).
  3. A kind of substance.
    vegetable matter
  4. A reason for concern; being amiss.
    What's the matter?
  5. A situation.
    a trivial matter
  6. A cause.
    a matter for concern
  7. Written material (especially in books or magazines)
    He always took some reading matter with him on the plane
  8. (neurology) Gray and white matter are the two nerve tissue types that comprise the brain and spinal cord.

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Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun "matter"

Verb

Matter (third-person singular simple present Matters, present participle Mattering, simple past and past participle Mattered)

  1. (intransitive) To be important.
    The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich.
    Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, don't worry, it does not matter.
    • 2011 Alistair Magowan Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle
    Despite further attempts by Agbonlahor and Young, however, they could not find the goal to reward their endeavour.
    It mattered little as Newcastle's challenge faded and Villa began to dominate the game in midfield, and it was only Barton's continued sense of injustice that offered the visitors any spark in a tame contest.
  2. (transitive, obsolete except dialectal) To care about, to mind; to find important.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 47:
      Besides, if it had been out of doors I had not mattered it so much; but with my own servant, in my own house, under my own roof [...]

Derived terms

Adjectives for Matter

subject; specific; triturated; perfunctory; doleful; heterogeneous; inconsequential; unimportant; spiritual; combustible; urgent; prudential; luminous; worldly; esoteric; indigent; trivial; imminent; spiritual; superficial; heavy; calcareous; internal; fixed; fluid; humid; dry; unctuous; crude; hard; soft; simple; veiny; compound; similar; organical; imponderable; extraneous; controversial; inevitable; critical; unpalatable; speculative; jesting; granular; erupted; exterior; analogous; ample; essential; brute; country; mineral; weighty;  ; ertinent; waste; baser; suspended; countless (pi); theoretical; pecuniary; impending; critical; putrid; encrusted; tarry; bare; nitrogenous; stony; regrettable; indolent; protuberant; empty; forgotten; ecclesiastical; inert; testamentary; suspended; mighty; graver; inexhaustible; commonplace; relevant; remote; subtle; indifferent; inflammable; financial; earnest; hideous; abstruse; fascinating; temporal; coloring; worthy; woody; perishable; money; unattainable; carbonaceous; artistic; grave; morbid; cognate.

Verbs for Matter

adjust—; aggravate—; brood over—; clinch —; deal with—; debate—; deliberate—; discuss—; dispute—; elucidate—; expedite—; forsake—; go to the root of—; inquire into —; judge—; mince—s; ponder—; press—; report—; shape—; simplify—; smooth—; visualize—; weigh—; —drifts; —engages; —engrosses; —lingers; —pertains to.

Thesaurus

activities, activity, ado, affair, affairs, air, ambition, amount, amount to something, amplitude, annoyance, anxiety, argument, article, aspect, aspiration, atom, atomic particles, atoms, autograph, bag, basis, be featured, be prominent, be somebody, be something, being, besetment, body, bother, brainchild, brute matter, building block, bulk, burden, business, calling, can of worms, carry weight, case, cause, chapter, chemical element, chyle, circumstance, colostrum, commerce, complication, component, composed matter, composition, computer printout, concern, concernment, condition, consequence, consideration, constituent, content, context, copy, core, count, cut ice, cut some ice, datum, dead matter, detail, difficulty, dilemma, disadvantage, discharge, distillate, distillation, document, doing, draft, earth, edited version, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, elixir, employ, employment, engrossment, enigma, enterprise, entity, episode, essay, essence, essentials, event, evil, extent, fabric, facet, fact, factor, fair copy, fester, festering, fiction, final draft, finished version, fire, first draft, flimsy, focus of attention, focus of interest, force, function, fundamental particle, get top billing, gist, gleet, goal, great ado, grievance, ground, guiding light, guiding star, head, headache, heading, heart, holograph, humor, hyle, hypostasis, ichor, ideal, implication, import, importance, incident, incidental, inconvenience, individual, inspiration, instance, intention, interest, issue, item, job, kernel, labor, lachryma, lactation, letter, leukorrhea, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, live matter, living issue, lodestar, lookout, lucubration, lymph, magnitude, main point, mainspring, manuscript, marrow, mass, material, material world, materiality, matter in hand, mattering, mean, meaning, meaningfulness, measure, measurement, meat, medium, milk, minor detail, minutia, minutiae, molecule, moment, monad, motif, motive, mucor, mucus, natural world, nature, neighborhood, nonfiction, nub, numbers, object, occasion, occupation, occurrence, opus, order, original, paper, parchment, particular, peccant humor, peck of troubles, penscript, phlegm, physical world, piece, piece of writing, pith, play, plenum, poem, point, point at issue, point in question, predicament, principle, printed matter, printout, problem, proceeding, production, purport, purulence, pus, puzzle, quandary, quantity, quantum, question, quintessence, range, rankle, rankling, reading matter, reason, recension, regard, respect, rheum, ripen, rubric, run, running, sake, saliva, sanies, sap, score, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, sea of troubles, second draft, sense, serous fluid, serum, service, significance, signification, signify, situation, snot, soul, source, spirit, spring, stand out, standing matter, star, strength, stuff, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, substance, substratum, sum, sum and substance, suppurate, suppuration, sweat, tangible, tear, teardrop, tell, text, the four elements, the whites, the written word, theme, thing, to-do, topic, transaction, transcript, transcription, trouble, tune, typescript, ulterior motive, undertaking, unit of being, upset, upshot, urine, version, vicinity, vocation, water, weep, weigh, weight, whole, work, worry, writing

Etymology

From Middle English mater, matere from Anglo-Norman matere, materie from Old French materie, matiere from Latin materia (matter, stuff, material), derivative of Latin mater "mother". Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork "material, matter" (from Old English andweorc "matter, substance, material"), Old English intinga "matter, affair, business".

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

basic structural component of the universe
non-antimatter matter
kind of substance
reason for concern
situation
cause
neurology: nerve tissue type
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Verb

to be important

Statistics

French

Verb

Matter

  1. Alternative spelling of mater.
   Conjugation of matter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive matter avoir or être matté
gerund en mattant en ayant matté or en étant matté
present participle mattant
past participle matté
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses 		present matte mattes matte mattons mattez mattent
imperfect mattais mattais mattait mattions mattiez mattaient
past historic1 mattai mattas matta mattâmes mattâtes mattèrent
future matterai matteras mattera matterons matterez matteront
conditional matterais matterais matterait matterions matteriez matteraient
compound
tenses 		present perfect Use the present tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
past anterior1 Use the past historic tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il que nous que vous qu’ils
simple
tenses 		present matte mattes matte mattions mattiez mattent
imperfect1 mattasse mattasses mattât mattassions mattassiez mattassent
compound
tenses 		past Use the present subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle
pluperfect1 Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— matte — mattons mattez —
1literary tenses

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