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n. things needed for doing or making something; "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials"

n. information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form; "the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography"

stuff

n. the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"

fabric, cloth, textile

n. artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"

matter, writing, written material

n. the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing"

material

adj. derived from or composed of matter; "the material universe"

material

adj. directly relevant to a matter especially a law case; "his support made a material difference"; "evidence material to the issue at hand"; "facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts"; "a material witness"

material

adj. concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being; "material needs"; "the moral and material welfare of all good citizens"- T.Roosevelt

material

adj. concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests; "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts"

corporeal

adj. having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett

kit, outfit

n. gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose

garbage, refuse, scraps, food waste

n. food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

rubbish, trash

n. worthless material that is to be disposed of

ragbag, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, omnium-gatherum

n. a motley assortment of things

falderal, folderol, frills, gimcrackery, gimcracks, nonsense, trumpery

n. ornamental objects of no great value

tag, rag, shred, tatter, tag end

n. a small piece of cloth or paper

substance, matter

n. that which has mass and occupies space; "an atom is the smallest indivisible unit of matter"

animal, sensual, carnal, fleshly

adj. marked by the appetites and passions of the body; "animal instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual pleasure without vice"

corporal, corporeal, bodily, somatic

adj. affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness"

bodily, carnal

adj. of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a bodily organ"; "bodily functions"

concrete

adj. capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary; "concrete objects such as trees"

physical

adj. concerned with material things; "physical properties"; "the physical characteristics of the earth"; "the physical size of a computer"

real, existent

adj. being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow

tangible

adj. perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch; "skin with a tangible roughness"

economic

adj. financially rewarding; "it was no longer economic to keep the factory open"; "have to keep prices high enough to make it economic to continue the service"

real, substantial

adj. having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare

animal, sensual, carnal, fleshly

adj. marked by the appetites and passions of the body; "animal instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual pleasure without vice"

corporal, corporeal, bodily, somatic

adj. affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness"

personal

adj. intimately concerning a person's body or physical being; "personal hygiene"

physiological, physiologic

adj. of or consistent with an organism's normal functioning; "physiologic functions"; "physiological processes"

earthly, temporal

adj. of the material world; "temporal possessions of the church"

terrestrial, mundane, sublunary

adj. concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"

mercenary, materialistic, worldly-minded

adj. marked by materialism

bodied

adj. having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination; "strong-bodied"; "big-bodied"

immaterial

adj. not consisting of matter; "immaterial apparitions"; "ghosts and other immaterial entities"

immaterial

adj. of no importance or relevance especially to a law case; "an objection that is immaterial after the fact"

immaterial, incorporeal

adj. without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit"

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