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materious

materious is the obsolete form of material.

Meaning of material

Adjective

material (comparative more material, superlative most material)

  1. Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
    • This compound has a number of interesting material properties.
  2. Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
    • material needs
    Antonyms:
    spiritual
  3. Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
    • material cause
  4. (especially) Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.
    • found a material difference between two things
    Antonyms:
    immaterial
  5. Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic.
    • the material world
  6. (obsolete) Full of substance or otherwise meaning.
    Synonyms:
    bulky, massive, solid, meaty

See all 19 meanings of material

Forms of materious

comparativemore materious
superlativemost materious

Questions about materious

What is materious the obsolete form of?
Materious is the obsolete form of material.

Words near materious in the dictionary

  1. materiel
  2. materiels
  3. materiology
  4. materiomic
  5. materiomics
  6. materious
  7. Matern
  8. maternal
  9. maternal aunt
  10. maternal aunts
  11. maternal cousin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: materious (page history and authors); material (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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