Usually means: Valuing possessions over spiritual matters.
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  1. materialistic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. materialistic: Merriam-Webster
  3. materialistic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. materialistic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. materialistic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Materialistic, materialistic: Wordnik
  7. materialistic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. materialistic: Wiktionary
  9. Materialistic, materialistic: Dictionary.com
  10. materialistic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Materialistic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Materialistic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. materialistic: Rhymezone
  14. Materialistic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. materialistic: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  16. materialistic: FreeDictionary.org
  17. materialistic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. materialistic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
▸ adjective:  Of or concerning philosophical materialism.

Similar:
conservative, middle-class, bourgeois, mercenary, worldly, worldly-minded, hypermaterialistic, consumeristic, greedy, avaricious, more...

Opposite:
unselfish, selfless, altruistic

Types:
hedonistic, utilitarian, deontological, teleological, virtue ethics, existentialist, more...

Phrases:
non materialistic, opposite of materialistic, materialistic luxuries, not materialistic, materialistic person, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, crassly, sided, modern, coarsely, pure, non, highly, darn, unromantic

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Similar:
conservative, middle-class, bourgeois, mercenary, worldly, worldly-minded, hypermaterialistic, consumeristic, greedy, avaricious, more...

Opposite:
unselfish, selfless, altruistic

Types:
hedonistic, utilitarian, deontological, teleological, virtue ethics, existentialist, more...

Phrases:
non materialistic, opposite of materialistic, materialistic luxuries, not materialistic, materialistic person, a materialistic person, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, crassly, sided, modern, coarsely, pure, non, highly, darn, unromantic

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     platinum,     diamond,     emerald, more...



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