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词汇 materialist
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Definition of materialist in English:

materialist

noun 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.

Rhymes

immaterialist, imperialist, serialist

Definition of materialist in US English:

materialist

nounməˈtirēələst
  • 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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