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Princeton's WordNet

  1. materialistic, mercenary, worldly-mindedadjective

    marked by materialism

  2. bourgeois, conservative, materialisticadjective

    conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

    "a bourgeois mentality"

Wiktionary

  1. materialisticadjective

    Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.

  2. materialisticadjective

    Of or concerning philosophical materialism.

Wikipedia

  1. materialistic

    Materialism is the view that the universe consists only of organized matter and energy.

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  1. materialistic

    Materialistic refers to a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values. It is a mindset or attitude characterized by a strong interest in gaining and accumulating material wealth or possessions.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Materialisticadjective

    alt. of Materialistical

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of materialistic in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of materialistic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of materialistic in a Sentence

  1. Kim Kardashian-West:

    I know this sounds crazy, but I know that was meant to happen to me. I don't want to start crying, but I feel like that was so meant to happen to me, i'm such a different person. I don't want to start crying anymore. It was meant to happen to me. I really feel like things happen in your life to teach you things. It was probably no secret -- and you see it on the show -- I was being flashy and I was definitely materialistic before.

  2. Logan Van Liempt:

    People live in a purely carnal physicality and therefore are unable to grasp abstract thought. Physical evidence of a non-physical force is impossible, and without objective philosophical truths, life is utterly meaningless. Due to these intellectual inabilities, rather than individuals using their collective will to seek absolute truth, they choose to be dependent on the materialistic world; rendering them trapped inside a state of existential-crisis.

  3. Brian Deschanel:

    It is unfortunate that in our materialistic world, at most, the level of appreciation for good deed is symmetrical to it's price tag.

  4. Wyndham Lewis:

    With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

  5. Lindsay Lohan:

    I always love giving gifts, so yes, for family and friends, most definitely I will be sending gifts. For me, I know it sounds silly, but, I am okay. I like to live by the act of giving. In all honesty, I am good with no materialistic gifts.

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