Definition of 'materialistic'
adjective
If you describe a person or society as materialistic, you are critical of them because they attach too much importance to money and material possessions.
[disapproval]
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And commerce is unmanly because it's materialistic and willing to settle for gain
rather than victory.
But it is stultified by hang-ups, principally about whether pure is really pure, and
whether applied is really materialistic.
In his view, the danger is of monopoly capitalism and a soulless, materialistic culture
that degrades civic society.
So, people in the private sector are more materialistic and driven more by extrinsic
factors.
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I feel society has become very materialistic.
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