immaterial

1. (figurative)Examples: "He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them; […]"Synonyms: base, contemptible, foolish, for the birds, futile, frivolous, idle, ignorableAntonyms: unimportant, ignorable, inconsequential, insignificant, minor, negligible, trivial, unremarkablefiguratively

2. (figurative)Examples: "No, vvhy art thou then exaſperate, thou idle, / immaterial ſkeine of ſleiue ſilke; thou greene ſacenet flap for a ſore eye, thou toſſell of a prodigalls purſe— […]"; "Mr. Woodhouse considered eight persons at dinner together as the utmost that his nerves could bear—and here was a ninth— […] She [Emma] comforted her father better than she could comfort herself, by representing that though he certainly would make them nine, yet he always said so little, that the increase of noise would be very immaterial."Synonyms: diaphanous, flimsy, gossamer, airy, aery, ethereal, immaterial, insubstantialfigurativelyrare

3. (figurative)Examples: "Objection, your Honour! The defendant’s criminal record is immaterial to this case."; "He was perpetually at her side, trying, apparently, to preserve the thread of a disconnected talk, the fate of which was, to judge by her face, profoundly immaterial to the young lady."Synonyms: neither here nor there, ungermane, arbitrary, betwixt and between, incoherent, independent, irrelative, irrespectiveAntonyms: germane, material, pertinent, relevant, unconnectedfiguratively