materialistic

materialistic

English

Etymology

material +‎ -istic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˌtɪəɹ.i.əˈlɪs.tɪk/

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Adjective

materialistic (comparative more materialistic, superlative most materialistic)

1. Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
   • 2019, Fancy Feast, “On Being a Fetish”, in Jewish Currents‎, number Summer 2019:

     Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals).

2. Of or concerning philosophical materialism.
   • 1852, Charles Kingsley, Phaeton, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers

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

Related terms

• materialism

Translations

being overly concerned with possessions

Catalan: materialista Czech: materialistický, hmotařský Estonian: materialistlik Finnish: materialistinen (fi) French: matérialiste (fr) m or f Galician: materialista (gl) German: materialistisch (de) Greek: υλιστικός (el) (ylistikós) Ido: materialista (io) Indonesian: materialistis (id) Interlingua: materialistic Irish: ábharaíoch Italian: materialista (it) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: مادی‎ (ku) (madî) Occitan: materialista (oc) Portuguese: materialista Romanian: materialist (ro) m Russian: мерканти́льный (ru) (merkantílʹnyj), материалисти́чный (ru) (materialistíčnyj) Spanish: materialista Volapük: materimik

of or concerning philosophical materialism

Catalan: materialista Esperanto: materialisma Finnish: materialistinen (fi) German: materialistisch (de) Greek: ματεριαλιστικός (el) (materialistikós), υλιστικός (el) (ylistikós) Irish: ábharaíoch Portuguese: materialista Romanian: materialist (ro) Russian: материалисти́ческий (ru) (materialistíčeskij) Spanish: materialista Volapük: stöfimik (vo)