Materialistic Synonyms and Antonyms

Of or preoccupied with material rather than spiritual or intellectual things
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. greedy
  2. acquisitive
  3. material
  4. possessive
  5. unspiritual
  6. worldly
  7. mercenary
  8. mundane
  9. carnal
  10. earthly-minded
  11. object oriented
  12. banausic
  13. capitalistic
  14. bourgeois
  15. worldly-minded
  16. secular
  17. earthy
  18. sensate
  19. sensual
  20. conservative
Antonyms:
  1. spiritual
  2. impractical
  3. thrifty
  4. ascetic
  5. ungreedy

Words Related to Materialistic

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Materialistic Sentence Examples

  • All these materialistic tendencies seem to have one explanation.

  • But in spite of this its materialistic affinities are unmistakable.

  • We live in a materialistic age where there seems to be a growing obsession with money.

  • It was probably also during this period that the female element was first definitely admitted to a prominent place amongst the divine objects of sectarian worship, in the shape of the wives of the principal gods viewed as their sakti, or female energy, theoretically identified with the Maya, or cosmic Illusion, of the idealistic Vedanta, and the Prakriti, or plastic matter, of the materialistic Sankhya philosophy, as the primary source of mundane things.

  • But it is quite possible that his scientific studies had bred in him, as in many others at that time, a materialistic, or at least a naturalistic, turn of mind; indeed, we should expect as much in a man of Van den Ende's somewhat rebellious temperament.

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