materialistic

English

Etymology

material +‎ -istic

Adjective

materialistic (comparative more materialistic, superlative most materialistic)

1. Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
2. Of or concerning philosophical materialism.
   • Charles Kingsley

     But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.

Related terms

• materialism

Translations

being overly concerned with possessions

• Catalan: materialista
• Czech: materialistický, hmotařský
• Estonian: materialistlik
• Finnish: materialistinen (fi)
• French: matérialiste (fr) m, f
• German: materialistisch (de)
• Greek: υλιστικός (el) (ylistikós)
• Ido: materialista
• Interlingua: materialistic

• Irish: ábharaíoch
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: مادی‎ (ku) (madî)

• Portuguese: materialista
• Romanian: materialist (ro) m
• Russian: мерканти́льный (ru) (merkantílʹnyj), материалисти́чный (ru) (materialistíčnyj)
• Spanish: materialista
• Volapük: materimik

of or concerning philosophical materialism

• Catalan: materialista
• Esperanto: materialisma
• Finnish: materialistinen (fi)
• German: materialistisch (de)
• Greek: ματεριαλιστικός (el) (materialistikós), υλιστικός (el) (ylistikós)
• Irish: ábharaíoch

• Portuguese: materialista
• Romanian: materialist (ro)
• Russian: материалисти́ческий (ru) (materialistíčeskij)
• Spanish: materialista
• Volapük: stöfimik (vo)