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matterless

matterless adjective: without matter, void of matter.

Adjective

matterless (not comparable)

  1. Without matter, void of matter
  2. unimportant, irrelevant.
    • It's propped against a jug, but all that is matterless now.2009, John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun

Origin of matterless

From Middle English materles, equivalent to matter + -less.

Words formed from matterless

Questions about matterless

What does matterless mean?
Matterless means without matter, void of matter.
What part of speech is matterless?
Matterless is an adjective.

Words near matterless in the dictionary

  1. matterfulness
  2. mattergy
  3. Matterhorn
  4. mattering
  5. matterings
  6. matterless
  7. matterlessness
  8. matterlike
  9. Mattern
  10. matternet
  11. Matterns

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