matter

matter [n1] substance amount, being, body, constituents, corporeality, corporeity, element, entity, individual, material, materialness, object, phenomenon, physical world, protoplasm, quantity, stuff, substantiality, sum, thing; concepts 407,433,470 —Ant. nothing, nothingness, zero matter [n2] concern, issue affair, bag, business, circumstance, episode, event, goings-on*, incident, job, lookout, nub, occurrence, proceeding, question, shooting match*, situation, subject, thing, topic, transaction, undertaking; concepts 532,696 matter [n3] subject, thesis argument, context, focus, head, interest, motif, motive, point, purport, resolution, sense, subject matter, substance, text, theme, topic; concepts 349,529 matter [n4] significance, meaning amount, body, burden, consequence, content, core, extent, gist*, import, importance, magnitude, meat, moment, neighborhood, note, order, pith, range, sense, substance, text, tune, upshot, vicinity, weight; concepts 651,668 —Ant. insignificance, meaninglessness matter [n5] difficulty, problem circumstance, complication, distress, grievance, perplexity, predicament, to-do*, trouble, upset, worry; concepts 666,674 matter [n6] secretion of a sore discharge, infection, maturation, purulence, pus, suppuration, ulceration; concepts 311,467 matter [v] be of consequence, importance affect, be important, be of value, be substantive, carry weight, count, cut ice*, express, have influence, imply, import, involve, make a difference, mean, mean something, signify, value, weigh; concepts 7,19,22,130,682