MATTER Synonyms

• an important question that is in dispute and must be settled

• one of a series published periodically

• some situation or event that is thought about

• the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)

• supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government

• the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

• a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

• the immediate descendants of a person

• the becoming visible

• an opening that permits escape or release

• the act of issuing printed materials

• prepare and issue for public distribution or sale

• circulate or distribute or equip with

• bring out an official document (such as a warrant)

• come out of

• make out and issue

• derived from or composed of matter

• directly relevant to a matter especially a law case

• having material or physical form or substance

• having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary

• the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object

• information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form

• artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

• things needed for doing or making something

• a person judged suitable for admission or employment

• concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests

• concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being

• the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object

• miscellaneous unspecified objects

• informal terms for personal possessions

• senseless talk

• unspecified qualities required to do or be something

• information in some unspecified form

• a critically important or characteristic component

• cram into a cavity

• press or force

• obstruct

• overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

• treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting

• fill tightly with a material

• fill with a stuffing while cooking

• the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

• something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation

• a branch of knowledge

• some situation or event that is thought about

• (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated

• a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation

• a person who owes allegiance to that nation

• (logic) the first term of a proposition

• possibly accepting or permitting

• being under the power or sovereignty of another or others

• likely to be affected by something

• cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to

• make accountable for

• make subservient; force to submit or subdue

• the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• the idea that is intended

• material of a particular kind or constitution

• considerable capital (wealth or income)

• content communicating a message; what something is about

• the property of holding together and retaining its shape

• a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties

• a special situation

• an action

• a special abstraction

• an artifact

• an event

• a vaguely specified concern

• a statement regarded as an object

• an entity that is not named specifically

• any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence

• a special objective

• a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion

• a separate and self-contained entity

• the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

• some situation or event that is thought about

• something that interests you because it is important or affects you

• an anxious feeling

• a feeling of sympathy for someone or something

• something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness

• a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it

• be relevant to

• be on the mind of

• that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

• a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow

• the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)

• (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon

• the focus of cognitions or feelings

• (computing) a discrete item that provides a description of virtually anything known to a computer

• express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent

• be averse to or express disapproval of

• the total number counted

• the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order

• a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl

• determine the number or amount of

• have weight; have import, carry weight

• show consideration for; take into account

• name or recite the numbers in ascending order

• put into a group

• include as if by counting

• have a certain value or carry a certain weight

• have faith or confidence in

• take account of

• denote or connote

• convey or express a meaning

• make known with a word or signal

• have a certain weight

• show consideration for; take into account

• determine the weight of

• have weight; have import, carry weight

• to be oppressive or burdensome