Material
Material adjective - Relating to or composed of matter.
Phantom
Phantom adjective - Not real and existing only in the imagination.
Usage example: the company claimed that the only hazards involving its product were the phantom dangers created by consumer groups
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Phantom Zone prisoners couldn't even touch each other; they were condemned just to watch the material world until their sentences expired.
Source: And I Must Scream / Comic Books - Early promotional material for Danny Phantom hinted at a "psychic connection" that Danny was supposed to share with Sam "She Is Not My Girlfriend" Manson.
Source: Mindlink Mates - He had quite a lot of appearances in pre-Phantom Menace-set material, but this trope really kicked off in The Clone Wars.
Source: Ensemble Darkhorse / Star Wars
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Phantom and Material. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/material/phantom
Material & Phantom. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/material/phantom>.
Phantom or Material. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/material/phantom.
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