0 past simple and past participle of matter --
1 to be important, or to affect what happens: --
I know Charles doesn't think this project is important, but it matters to me.
[ + that ] It didn't matter that our best player was injured after ten minutes - we still won.
[ + question word ] It doesn't matter what you wear - just as long as you come.
"What did you say?" "Oh, it doesn't matter."
We were late but it didn't seem to matter.
What mattered to him was the establishment of his episcopal authority at the expense of that of the martyrs.
All that mattered was the honesty of the answer.
The economics of science: methodology and epistemology as if economics really mattered.
On a larger scale, sympathetic partnership always mattered.
All that mattered was moving in his own time, like the growing plants.
What mattered was that others invested time and money to come and see a local object.
Twelve thought this mattered and twelve did not.
What mattered most was the sort of place in which you lived.
