The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - materialn.

1) substance, matter, stuff, fabric: It is hard to tell what material this is made of. 2) cloth, fabric, textile, stuff: This material is too sheer for a dress. 3) constituents, elements, components: We import the raw materials and make the finished product here. 4) information, data, facts, statistics, figures, documents, documentation, papers, notes, resources, means, research, apparatus, supplies: I have not yet gathered enough material for the article. --adj. 5) physical, tangible, concrete, solid, real, substantive, substantial, palpable, corporeal, bodily: It was many years before scientists could persuade people that air is a material substance. 6) consequential, important, significant, serious, substantial: How could one horseshoe nail be material in the outcome of a battle? 7 worldly, earthly, mundane, temporal, non-spiritual, secular, lay, materialistic: He ponders the abstract, not the base, material things of everyday life.