materialistic

from 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}]
    
from 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]
    
from 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,
      yuppy

    

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