materialist
Collocations
4ADJ.
ordinary, scientific
MATERIALIST + NOUN
hurls, perspective, statistics
PREP.
from, with
ADV.
also
Definitions
noun
Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.
Ironically, today's generation has become the little materialists and "fame whores" (New York Magazine's term) their boomer parents so reviled.
A follower or proponent of philosophical materialism.
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.
adj
Of or concerning materialism.
Synonym of materialistic, concerned only with material things.
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6Ironically, today's generation has become the little materialists and "fame whores" (New York Magazine's term) their boomer parents so reviled.
WiktionaryIt 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
WiktionaryMary is a materialist.
Tatoeba · #1486045Tom is a materialist.
Tatoeba · #9500744Tom is a scientific materialist.
Tatoeba · #11977003I tend to look at things from a scientific materialist perspective.
Tatoeba · #11977004