Word Type

Noun

Adjective

Adjective

Verb

The word "material" can be used as noun, adjective, adjective and verb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

immaterial spiritual

Typical Location

anything construction fabric store factory house physical world science lab

Derived Terms

Kelvin-Voigt material Voigt material active material antimaterial archaeomaterial archeomaterial astromaterial bill of material bimaterial biomaterial bomb material building material child sexual abuse material collateral material composite material cryptomaterial ecomaterial genetic material genuine issue of material fact geomaterial hazardous material hazmat material action material breach material cause material conditional material culture material fact material handling material heresy material implication material logic material nonimplication material noun material science material support material witness materialisation materialise materialism materialist materialization materialize materially materialness materials science metamaterial micromaterial multimaterial nanomaterial non-material nonmaterial positive material identification postmaterial postmaterialism postmaterialist raw material reading material shawl material sociomaterial strategic material supermaterial time and material trimaterial unmaterial

Context

accounting law

Part Of (Holonyms)

artifact

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

applicant applier artefact artifact equipment info information substance

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

adobe brick cement chemical substance clay composite concrete fabric glass metal mortar paper plastic stone wood

Type Of (IsA)

applicant equipment information substance

Related Terms

materiel matter

Related Terms

also also mineral any any substance basis book building cloth clothe clothes clothes goods clothes makeup clothing cotton cotton silk data document fabric follower for sewing form garment general general form general substance general term generic generic term girl goods goods made like like cotton like silk lyric lyric girl made made of madonna madonna song madonna was makeup making making things manipulate mat materialize materiel matter mineral people qualified raw raw follower sample sewing shape significant silk something girl song specimen spiritual study stuff substance substantial term textiles wool wool cotton worldly written

Similar Terms

bodied bodily corporal corporate crucial crucial embodied incarnate physical physical real reincarnate secular substantial temporal worldly worldly

Synonym Network

corporeal fabric mundane substance substantial

Used For

build make clothes make drapes making

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.