materialist
/məˈtiːɹɪəlɪst/
materialist noun: someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.
Noun
materialist (plural materialists)
- Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.
- Ironically, today's generation has become the little materialists and "fame whores" (New York Magazine's term) their boomer parents so reviled.2007 March 2, Christopher Orlet, “The Look-at-Me Generation”, in The American Spectator
- A follower or proponent of philosophical materialism.
- It is weary work enough to argue with an ordinary materialist, who hurls statistics and whole strata of geological facts at your head, whilst you can only buffet him with deductions and instincts and the snowflakes of faith, that are, alas! so apt to melt in the hot embers of our troubles.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
Adjective
materialist (comparative more materialist, superlative most materialist)
- Of or concerning materialism.
- Synonym of materialistic, concerned only with material things.
- Synonyms:
- materialistic, concerned only with material things
materialist meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Myanmar
materialist in Urdu
- materialist
- دہریہ dahriyā
materialist in Malayalam
- ഭൗതികവാദി, ഭോഗതത്പരൻ, സുഖലോലുപൻ
materialist in Myanmar
- someone who is materialistic
- ရုပ်ဝါဒီ rup-wadi
Synonyms of materialist
Forms of materialist
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | materialists |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more materialist |
| superlative | most materialist |
Origin of materialist
From material + -ist.
Words formed from materialist
Questions about materialist
- What does materialist mean?
- Materialist means someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.
- What is materialist in Urdu?
- Materialist in Urdu is دہریہ (dahriyā). See Materialist meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is materialist?
- Materialist can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce materialist?
- Materialist is pronounced /məˈtiːɹɪəlɪst/.
- What is the plural of materialist?
- The plural of materialist is materialists.
Words near materialist in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: materialist (page history and authors); دہریہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); materialist (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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