matter🔊

Material; substance.

(physics) Anything with mass and volume.

(physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.

A kind of substance.

Printed material, especially in books or magazines.

(philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.

An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or one that is problematic.

An approximate amount or extent.

(law) Legal services provided by a lawyer or firm to their client in relation to a particular issue.

(obsolete) Essence; pith; embodiment.

(obsolete) (The) inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.

(dated, medicine) Pus.

Importance.

To be important.

(now England regional, Caribbean) To care about, to mind; to find important.

(medicine, archaic) To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.