Dictionary

materialistic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /məˌtɪəɹ.i.əˈlɪs.tɪk/

Etymology

Etymology tree English material Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -istic English materialistic From material + -istic.

Meanings

1. Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
   • 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). 2019 August 20, Fancy Feast, “On Being a Fetish”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020:
2. Synonym of materialist, of or concerning materialism.
   • But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. 1852, Charles Kingsley, Phaeton, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers:

Forms

Deriveds

amaterialistic · postmaterialistic · nonmaterialistic · hypermaterialistic · immaterialistic · materialistically · unmaterialistic · antimaterialistic

Relateds

materialism

Synonyms

of or concerning materialism · materialist

Translations (25)

fi materialistinen (being overly concerned with possessions) · el υλιστικός (being overly concerned with possessions) · vo materimik (being overly concerned with possessions) · oc materialista (being overly concerned with possessions) · hu materialista (being overly concerned with possessions) · es materialista (being overly concerned with possessions) · ga ábharaíoch (being overly concerned with possessions) · id materialistis (being overly concerned with possessions) · io materialista (being overly concerned with possessions) · pl materialistyczny (being overly concerned with possessions) · fr matérialiste (being overly concerned with possessions) · ca materialista (being overly concerned with possessions) · ckb مادی (being overly concerned with possessions) · nl materialistisch (being overly concerned with possessions) · et materialistlik (being overly concerned with possessions) · ro materialist (being overly concerned with possessions) · pt materialista (being overly concerned with possessions) · ru материалисти́чный (being overly concerned with possessions) · it materialista (being overly concerned with possessions) · gl materialista (being overly concerned with possessions) · ia materialistic (being overly concerned with possessions) · ru мерканти́льный (being overly concerned with possessions) · cs materialistický (being overly concerned with possessions) · de materialistisch (being overly concerned with possessions) · cs hmotařský (being overly concerned with possessions)