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materialistic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective materialistic has 2 senses
- materialistic(s = adj.all) mercenary, worldly-minded - marked by materialism; Array Derived form noun materialism1
- materialistic(s = adj.all) bourgeois, conservative - conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" Derived form noun materialism1
CIDE DICTIONARY
materialistic, a.
- Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. [1913 Webster]"But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics." [1913 Webster]
- Primarily concerned with material objects and worldly activities, as contrasted with spiritual, moral or philosophical concerns; especially, concerned primarily with gaining money and the things that money can buy. [PJC]
THESAURUS
materialistic
Adamic, Circean, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Philistine, Stoic, animal, animalistic, animist, animistic, atomistic, banausic, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, breadwinning, brutal, brute, brutish, businesslike, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, commercial, commonsense, cosmotheistic, earthly, earthy, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic, existential, expedient, fallen, fleshly, greedy, gross, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, hylomorphous, hylotheistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, lapsed, material, materialist, mechanist, mechanistic, metaphysical, moneymaking, monistic, mundane, naturalist, naturalistic, nominalist, nonspiritual, orgiastic, panlogistical, pantheistic, physical, positivist, positivistic, postlapsarian, practical, pragmatic, pragmatist, profane, prosaic, rationalistic, realist, realistic, scholastic, secular, sensationalistic, sensual, swinish, syncretistic, temporal, terrestrial, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, unspiritual, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic, workaday, workday, working, worldly, yuppyROGET THESAURUS
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Materiality
N materiality, materialness, corporeity, corporality, substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum, physical condition, matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum, frame, object, article, thing, something, still life, stocks and stones, materials, physics, somatology, somatics, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, physicism, physical science, philosophie positive, materialism, materialist, physicist, somatism, somatist, material, bodily, corporeal, corporal, physical, somatic, somatoscopic, sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial, objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.
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