materialistic

[ muh-teer-ee-uh-lis-tik ]

/ məˌtɪər i əˈlɪs tɪk /

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adjective

excessively concerned with physical comforts or the acquisition of wealth and material possessions, rather than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.

adhering to the philosophy of materialism, a theory that regards matter as constituting the universe and all its phenomena.

Nearby words

material equivalence, material implication, material mode, materialism, materialist, materialistic, materiality, materialize, materially, materials, materials handling

Origin of materialistic

materialist + -ic

Related forms

ma·te·ri·al·is·ti·cal·ly, adverban·ti·ma·te·ri·al·is·tic, adjectivean·ti·ma·te·ri·al·is·ti·cal·ly, adverbnon·ma·te·ri·al·is·tic, adjective

non·ma·te·ri·al·is·ti·cal·ly, adverbsem·i·ma·te·ri·al·is·tic, adjectiveun·ma·te·ri·al·is·tic, adjectiveun·ma·te·ri·al·is·ti·cal·ly, adverb

Examples from the Web for materialistic

This is sort of a materialistic tradition, but every year for Sundance, my friends and I road trip out here.
Shailene Woodley Opens Up About Coming of Age, ‘Divergent,’ and the Faults in Our World|Marlow Stern|January 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He did indeed have a thoroughly pagan, materialistic, unforgiving eye.
Remembering the Surprisingly Vulnerable Gore Vidal|Lee Siegel|August 1, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Brooks argues in his book that advocates for limited government have been trapped into making a 'materialistic' case.
Are Conservatives Too Logical?|Noah Kristula-Green|May 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Like protest in literature, materialistic amorality has, of course, been done before.
Literary Gold in Hard Times|Chloë Schama|November 4, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Attempting to squeeze these things into a materialistic box makes no sense.
Ask the Big Questions|Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow|October 26, 2011|DAILY BEAST
But even in a society as materialistic as ours, the outward symbol is not everything.
Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905|Various
The danger seems to lie in wandering into a materialistic desert, for it is but too true that "Man can not live by bread alone."
The Story of an Ancient Parish|H. R. Coulthard
The materialistic conception of history is all very well, but some care for the higher things of civilization is a relief.
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism|Bertrand Russell
Do your sthetic sensibilities shrink at these materialistic descriptions?
An American Girl in Munich|Mabel W. Daniels
Lange calls him “the father of the modern Materialistic movement.”
A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations|Joseph Mazzini Wheeler