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[muh-teer-ee-uh-list] 
ma⋅te⋅ri⋅al⋅ist
[muh-teer-ee-uh-list] 
i –noun
–adjective
| 1. | a person who is markedly more concerned with material things than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values. |
| 2. | an adherent of philosophical materialism. |
| 3. | concerned with material things; materialistic. |
| 4. | of or pertaining to philosophical materialism or its adherents. |
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| ma·te·ri·al·ism
(mə-tîr'ē-ə-lĭz'əm) Pronunciation Key
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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| materialistic | |
adjective | |
| 1. | marked by materialism |
| 2. | conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois] |
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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. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. --C. Kingsley.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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