Materialist

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who holds or advocates any form of metaphysical materialism.
  • noun. One who is absorbed by material interests; one who takes a low, material view of life.
  • Of or pertaining to materialism; materialistic.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter. A believer in philosophical materialism.
  • noun. One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.
  • noun. A follower or proponent of philosophical materialism.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter
  • noun. someone with great regard for material possessions
  • Word Usage
    "First of all, I resent the "hard-headed" modifier to the term materialist, not so subtly suggesting that there is something wrong with materialism (in the sense of a naturalistic philosophy, not in that of Madonna's "Material Girl")."
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