'Materialistic' definitions:
Definition of 'materialistic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Marked by materialism [syn: materialistic, mercenary, worldly-minded]
adjective
Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois, conservative, materialistic]
Definition of 'Materialistic'
From: GCIDE
- Materialistic \Ma*te`ri*al*is"tic\, Materialistical \Ma*te`ri*al*is"tic*al\, 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. --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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]
Synonyms of 'materialistic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Adamic,
- animal,
- animalistic,
- animist,
- animistic,
- atomistic,
- banausic,
- beastlike,
- beastly,
- bestial,
- bodily,
- breadwinning,
- brutal,
- brute,
- brutish,
- businesslike,
- carnal,
- carnal-minded,
- Circean,
- coarse,
- commercial,
- commonsense,
- cosmotheistic,
- Cyrenaic,
- earthly,
- earthy,
- eclectic,
- Eleatic,
- empirical,
- Epicurean,
- eudaemonistic,
- existential,
- expedient,
- fallen,
- fleshly,
- greedy,
- gross,
- hedonic,
- hedonist,
- hedonistic,
- humanist,
- humanistic,
- hylomorphous,
- hylotheistic,
- idealistic,
- instrumentalist,
- lapsed,
- Marxian,
- Marxist,
- material,
- materialist,
- mechanist,
- mechanistic,
- Megarian,
- metaphysical,
- moneymaking,
- monistic,
- mundane,
- naturalist,
- naturalistic,
- nominalist,
- nonspiritual,
- orgiastic,
- panlogistical,
- pantheistic,
- Philistine,
- physical,
- positivist,
- positivistic,
- postlapsarian,
- practical,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatist,
- profane,
- prosaic,
- rationalistic,
- realist,
- realistic,
- scholastic,
- secular,
- sensationalistic,
- sensual,
- Stoic,
- swinish,
- syncretistic,
- temporal,
- terrestrial,
- theistic,
- transcendentalist,
- transcendentalistic,
- unspiritual,
- utilitarian,
- vitalistic,
- voluntarist,
- voluntaristic,
- workaday,
- workday,
- working,
- worldly,
- yuppy