[syn: bourgeois, conservative, materialistic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
materialistic
adj 1: marked by materialism [syn: materialistic, mercenary,
worldly-minded]
2: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle
class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois,
conservative, materialistic]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
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