materialist

From material + -ist.

• IPA^(key): /məˈtiːɹɪəlɪst/

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materialist (plural materialists)

1. Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.
   • 2007 March 2, Christopher Orlet, “The Look-at-Me Generation”, in The American Spectator‎^[1]:

     Ironically, today's generation has become the little materialists and "fame whores" (New York Magazine's term) their boomer parents so reviled.

2. A follower or proponent of philosophical materialism.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     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.

• hylic, hyloist, hylist, hylicist (Gnosticism, derogatory)

materialist (comparative more materialist, superlative most materialist)

1. (philosophy) Of or concerning materialism.
2. Synonym of materialistic, concerned only with material things.

• materialistic; see also hylozoic

Borrowed, likely from French.

• IPA^(key): /maːˌteː.ri.aːˈlɪst/

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• Hyphenation: ma‧te‧ri‧a‧list
• Rhymes: -ɪst

materialist m (plural materialisten, no diminutive)

1. materialist (one who believes that only matters exists)
2. materialist (pursuer of money or possessions)

• materialistisch

• materialisme

Borrowed from French matérialiste or German Materialist.

• IPA^(key): /ma.te.ri.aˈlist/

materialist m or n (feminine singular materialistă, masculine plural materialiști, feminine/neuter plural materialiste)

1. materialistic

materialist m (plural materialiști, feminine equivalent materialistă)

1. materialist

materiell +‎ -ist

materialist c

1. a materialist (follower or proponent of philosophical materialism)
2. a materialist (someone materialistic)

• materialistisk

• “materialist”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “materialist”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)