materialistic
[muh-teer-ee-uh-lis-tik]
- 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.
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Origin of materialistic
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Examples from the Web for materialistic
Contemporary Examples
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 WorldMarlow Stern
January 22, 2014
He did indeed have a thoroughly pagan, materialistic, unforgiving eye.
Brooks argues in his book that advocates for limited government have been trapped into making a 'materialistic' case.
Like protest in literature, materialistic amorality has, of course, been done before.
Attempting to squeeze these things into a materialistic box makes no sense.
Historical Examples
I have said that the dominant thinking of our age is materialistic, and by that I mean also physical.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
Let our materialistic friends summon them, then, to their aid.
Life: Its True GenesisR. W. Wright
At all events, it is a legitimate induction from materialistic premises.
Life: Its True GenesisR. W. Wright
Physical science is as little Atheistic as it is Materialistic.'
Mind and Motion and MonismGeorge John Romanes
They are suspicious and materialistic, having no sacred ideals.
Beasts, Men and GodsFerdinand Ossendowski
Word Origin and History for materialistic
adj.
1829, from materialist + -ic. Related: Materialistically.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper