matter🔊

Material; substance.

(physics) Anything with mass.

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

A kind of substance.

{{cap|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 (''especially when preceded by'' the) 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) {{cap|essence}}; pith; embodiment.

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

(medicine) {{cap|pus}}.

{{cap|importance}}.

(stative) To be important.

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

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