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Definition of materialist in English: materialistnoun məˈtɪərɪəlɪst 1A person who considers material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. greedy materialists lusting for consumer baubles Example sentencesExamples - He is not only a minimalist, but a materialist.
- He once observed that the commonly accepted idea that Americans are materialists is wrong.
- There's a narrowing of the gap between materialists and non-materialists in life satisfaction as materialists' income rises.
- "I am not a materialist," I protested hotly.
- They may just be greedy materialists lusting for consumer baubles.
- If we copied such a place, all we'd be left with is ugly glass and concrete and a bunch of greedy materialists.
- We got the chance to peer into the minds and hearts of today's teens, both the materialists and the non-materialists.
- Programmed into its computer software are 52 social rankings, including "clever capitalists," "rising materialists," and "rootless renters."
- These fans are not simply materialists who celebrate the monetary value of their spoils.
- Even if some materialists swim through life with little distress, consumerism carries larger costs that are worth worrying about.
2Philosophy A person who supports the theory that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications. an atheist and philosophical materialist Example sentencesExamples - If we are going to be good materialists, we must believe that situation determines consciousness.
- That capacity is not merely self-consciousness, which can be explained away by materialists or reserved for a "spiritual soul" by Cartesian dualists.
- Of course materialists won't give any truck to what God tells us in the Bible.
- I regard those disagreements as far less serious than my disagreements with the Darwinian materialists.
- There was a question about the structure of the cosmos that historically really did divide them from materialists and pagans.
- The materialists' philosophies have pretty much exploded.
- Although the writings of scientific materialists are filled with hostility toward religious mystery, religious mystery has never acted as a brake upon scientific progress.
- With materialists, anything goes if it excludes God!
- The greatest danger of our day does not arise from atheists and materialists.
- This way of thinking about God never shows up in the public debates between creationists and evolutionary materialists.
adjective məˈtɪərɪəlɪst 1Considering material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. a greedy materialist population his anger at social injustice and materialist greed Example sentencesExamples - What demanded resistance was their own imbrication in Cold War intrigues, worsened by state corruption and materialist excess.
- The links made between hidden personal psychosis and the materialist ethos of upper-middle-class society are marred by stylistic tics peculiar to the 1960s.
- We should consider putting aside our materialist obsession with size, not to say gross attendance figures, and turn to matters of what we now call "content."
- It's clear that his sympathies lie with the underdog in China's new materialist society.
- Our materialist culture hysterically produces new marketable images and turns even crime, violence, and decadence into profit.
- His immersion in her mall adventure is a succinct metaphor for the soul-damaging nature of materialist suburbia.
- The simultaneous testing of avant-garde and materialist outlooks yielded equivocal results.
- What the modernists of the 1920s and 1930s had wanted was a kind of materialist foothold that would sustain the progressive development of identity.
- She suggests that both genres exploited a universalizing language of primitive myth to protest "contemporary materialist values and excessive individualism."
- Fetishistic and glitzy, the work was intended to critique the ostentatious display of jewelry signifying materialist obsessions.
2Philosophy Relating to the theory that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications. atheistic materialist philosophy Example sentencesExamples - He accords far more importance to the Dutch materialist philosopher Spinoza than is customary.
- He had seen the government install what he saw as a deplorable new godless and materialist proletarian state.
- These developments cry out for a materialist explanation.
- The whole idea of representation is totally at odds with the structural/materialist ideology.
- When love denies human compassion, love itself becomes part of a materialist schematism.
- He claims that Western science is often condemned as positivist, anti-holistic, strongly reductionist, and materialist.
- These are some of the reasons that "evolution" simulations in computers have no relevance to the materialist belief in molecules-to-man evolution.
- He has not fared well with the dominantly materialist disposition of evolutionary scientists and philosophers since his death.
- He always insisted on surrealism's being a materialist philosophy.
- A materialist understanding is an essential step in liberating culture from the stranglehold of commodification.
Rhymesimmaterialist, imperialist, serialist Definition of materialist in US English: materialistnounməˈtirēələst 1A person who considers material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. greedy materialists lusting for consumer baubles Example sentencesExamples - Even if some materialists swim through life with little distress, consumerism carries larger costs that are worth worrying about.
- These fans are not simply materialists who celebrate the monetary value of their spoils.
- Programmed into its computer software are 52 social rankings, including "clever capitalists," "rising materialists," and "rootless renters."
- If we copied such a place, all we'd be left with is ugly glass and concrete and a bunch of greedy materialists.
- There's a narrowing of the gap between materialists and non-materialists in life satisfaction as materialists' income rises.
- We got the chance to peer into the minds and hearts of today's teens, both the materialists and the non-materialists.
- "I am not a materialist," I protested hotly.
- He is not only a minimalist, but a materialist.
- He once observed that the commonly accepted idea that Americans are materialists is wrong.
- They may just be greedy materialists lusting for consumer baubles.
2Philosophy A person who supports the theory that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications. an atheist and philosophical materialist Example sentencesExamples - I regard those disagreements as far less serious than my disagreements with the Darwinian materialists.
- That capacity is not merely self-consciousness, which can be explained away by materialists or reserved for a "spiritual soul" by Cartesian dualists.
- With materialists, anything goes if it excludes God!
- The materialists' philosophies have pretty much exploded.
- If we are going to be good materialists, we must believe that situation determines consciousness.
- There was a question about the structure of the cosmos that historically really did divide them from materialists and pagans.
- Although the writings of scientific materialists are filled with hostility toward religious mystery, religious mystery has never acted as a brake upon scientific progress.
- The greatest danger of our day does not arise from atheists and materialists.
- Of course materialists won't give any truck to what God tells us in the Bible.
- This way of thinking about God never shows up in the public debates between creationists and evolutionary materialists.
adjectiveməˈtirēələst 1Considering material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. a greedy materialist population his anger at social injustice and materialist greed Example sentencesExamples - She suggests that both genres exploited a universalizing language of primitive myth to protest "contemporary materialist values and excessive individualism."
- Fetishistic and glitzy, the work was intended to critique the ostentatious display of jewelry signifying materialist obsessions.
- What the modernists of the 1920s and 1930s had wanted was a kind of materialist foothold that would sustain the progressive development of identity.
- The links made between hidden personal psychosis and the materialist ethos of upper-middle-class society are marred by stylistic tics peculiar to the 1960s.
- It's clear that his sympathies lie with the underdog in China's new materialist society.
- We should consider putting aside our materialist obsession with size, not to say gross attendance figures, and turn to matters of what we now call "content."
- What demanded resistance was their own imbrication in Cold War intrigues, worsened by state corruption and materialist excess.
- Our materialist culture hysterically produces new marketable images and turns even crime, violence, and decadence into profit.
- His immersion in her mall adventure is a succinct metaphor for the soul-damaging nature of materialist suburbia.
- The simultaneous testing of avant-garde and materialist outlooks yielded equivocal results.
2Philosophy Relating to the theory that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications. atheistic materialist philosophy Example sentencesExamples - He always insisted on surrealism's being a materialist philosophy.
- A materialist understanding is an essential step in liberating culture from the stranglehold of commodification.
- The whole idea of representation is totally at odds with the structural/materialist ideology.
- When love denies human compassion, love itself becomes part of a materialist schematism.
- He has not fared well with the dominantly materialist disposition of evolutionary scientists and philosophers since his death.
- He accords far more importance to the Dutch materialist philosopher Spinoza than is customary.
- These are some of the reasons that "evolution" simulations in computers have no relevance to the materialist belief in molecules-to-man evolution.
- He claims that Western science is often condemned as positivist, anti-holistic, strongly reductionist, and materialist.
- These developments cry out for a materialist explanation.
- He had seen the government install what he saw as a deplorable new godless and materialist proletarian state.
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