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materialistic

adj
/məˌtɪəɹ.i.əˈlɪs.tɪk/

Etymology

From material + -istic.

  1. derived from māteria
  2. derived from māteriālis
  3. inherited from material
  4. suffixed as materialistic — “material + -istic”

Definitions

  1. Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.

  2. Synonym of materialist, of or concerning materialism.

    • But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.

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Derived

amaterialistic, antimaterialistic, hypermaterialistic, immaterialistic, materialistically, nonmaterialistic, postmaterialistic, unmaterialistic

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA