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Matter

noun

A vaguely specified concern. Synonyms: affair, thing. "It is none of your affair" , "Things are going well"

Some situation or event that is thought about. Synonyms: issue, subject, topic. "He had been thinking about the subject for several years" , "It is a matter for the police"

That which has mass and occupies space.

A problem.

(used with negation) having consequence.

Written works (especially in books or magazines).

verb

(past & past part. mattered; pres. part. mattering)

Have weight; have import, carry weight. Synonyms: count, weigh.

Mat

adjective

Not reflecting light; not glossy. Synonyms: flat, matt, matte, matted. "A photograph with a matte finish"

Matt

adjective

Not reflecting light; not glossy. Synonyms: flat, mat, matte, matted. "A photograph with a matte finish"

Matte

adjective

Not reflecting light; not glossy. Synonyms: flat, mat, matt, matted. "A photograph with a matte finish"

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"Matter" Quotes from Famous Books

... for standing up to-day against that damned demagogue, Lewis Rand! No matter if he is defeated. Every gentleman applauds him. You women adore victory, but let me tell you, a vanquished Federalist is still the conqueror ...

— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston

... but rather exceeded his former profligacy, so that all Florence was scandalised thereby and pitied his gentle Duchess. I mind me now, however, that to my astonishment there was one who took another view of the matter, for Lorenzino de' Medici affirmed that Margaret was possessed of that dauntless courage which one sees sometimes in the tamers of lions and other savage beasts; that Alessandro was a mean-spirited creature cowed by ...

— Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) • Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney

... years' imprisonment in the Spielberg at Bruenn for his patriotism, from which he was liberated in 1830; he wrote an account of his life in prison, which commanded attention all over Europe, both for the subject-matter of it and the fascination of ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... fresh talk with his wife; the end of which was that he gave Daisy leave to do what she liked in the matter of Molly Skelton; and was rewarded on the spot by seeing the pink tinge which instantly started ...

— Melbourne House, Volume 2 • Susan Warner

... have killed the other fellow, Walter," he observed. "But, to be sure, it would have been a difficult matter to capture him, and still more so to make him take the right course when ...

— In the Eastern Seas • W.H.G. Kingston

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