materialistic

Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.

Adjective

  1. Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
    • Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran...
  2. Synonym of materialist, of or concerning materialism.
    • But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. - 1852, Charles Kingsley, Phaeton, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers:

    Synonyms: materialist of or concerning materialism

Origin

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.

Forms

more materialistic most materialistic

Related

materialism

Derived

amaterialistic antimaterialistic hypermaterialistic immaterialistic materialistically nonmaterialistic postmaterialistic unmaterialistic