Meaning & use
Materially
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To a significant or important extent, or in terms of physical substance or wealth.
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The new evidence materially changed the outcome of the trial.
They lived materially comfortable lives but felt something was missing.
A note on using this word
Common in legal and business writing, as in 'materially affect' or 'materially misrepresent,' to signal a change large enough to matter.
Words with a similar meaning
substantiallysignificantly
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Words with an opposite meaning
negligiblyinsignificantly
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