adj
Meaning 1
Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
materialistic
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/məˌtɪəɹ.i.əˈlɪs.tɪk/
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adj
Meaning 2
Synonym of materialist, of or concerning materialism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: materialist, of or concerning materialism
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a bourgeois mentality
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bourgeois, conservative
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
marked by materialism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mercenary, worldly-minded
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English material Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō 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.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: materialista — being overly concerned with possessions
- Czech: materialistický — being overly concerned with possessions
- Czech: hmotařský — being overly concerned with possessions
- Dutch: materialistisch — being overly concerned with possessions
- Estonian: materialistlik — being overly concerned with possessions
- Finnish: materialistinen — being overly concerned with possessions
- French: matérialiste — being overly concerned with possessions
- Galician: materialista — being overly concerned with possessions
- German: materialistisch — being overly concerned with possessions
- Greek: υλιστικός (ylistikós) — being overly concerned with possessions
- Hungarian: materialista — being overly concerned with possessions
- Ido: materialista — being overly concerned with possessions
- Indonesian: materialistis — being overly concerned with possessions
- Interlingua: materialistic — being overly concerned with possessions
- Irish: ábharaíoch — being overly concerned with possessions
- Italian: materialista — being overly concerned with possessions
- Central Kurdish: مادی (madî) — being overly concerned with possessions
- Occitan: materialista — being overly concerned with possessions
- Portuguese: materialista — being overly concerned with possessions
- Romanian: materialist — being overly concerned with possessions
- Russian: мерканти́льный (merkantílʹnyj) — being overly concerned with possessions
- Russian: материалисти́чный (materialistíčnyj) — being overly concerned with possessions
- Spanish: materialista — being overly concerned with possessions
- Volapük: materimik — being overly concerned with possessions