materialist
[muh-teer-ee-uh-list]
- a person who is markedly more concerned with material things than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
- an adherent of philosophical materialism.
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- concerned with material things; materialistic.
- of or relating to philosophical materialism or its adherents.
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Origin of materialist
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Related Words for materialist
doubter, questioner, agnostic, pessimist, dissenter, cynic, skeptic, infidel, misanthrope, unbeliever, atheist, heretic, apostate, nihilist, heathen, freethinker, pagan, rationalist, materialist, scofferExamples from the Web for materialist
Historical Examples of materialist
But first, let us do so from the materialist's own stand-point.
Life: Its True GenesisR. W. Wright
But we put it on the irrefragable logic of the materialist's own premises and conclusions.
Life: Its True GenesisR. W. Wright
“The external world,” says the Materialist––“Does not exist,” says the Idealist.
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
In short, the cow does fulfill the materialist theory of history: that is why the cow has no history.
A Miscellany of MenG. K. Chesterton
It is customary to condemn the American as a materialist because of his worship of success.
What I Saw in AmericaG. K. Chesterton
Word Origin and History for materialist
1660s and after in various philosophical and theological senses, on model of French matérialiste, from material (n.) + -ist. Also cf. materialism.
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