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materialist

[ US /məˈtɪɹiəɫɪst/ ]
[ UK /mətˈi‍əɹɪəlˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone with great regard for material possessions
  2. someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter

How To Use materialist In A Sentence

  • There is no doubt that computers ‘play’ a very different kind of chess to humans which generally speaking is highly calculative, rather materialistic and unbelievably tenacious.
  • In an interesting July 30th post on Off-Grid.net, Alex Benady repots that "advanced industrial countries like the US and UK are moving toward a post-consumer era -- less materialist and more spiritual. The Greenwash Brigade: August 2008 Archives
  • Sensual and materialistic, they want all the power, comfort and control they can get out of life.
  • This is the heart of my main criticism of Dawkins and every other materialist who believes that we are the products of unguided evolutionary processes: you can't get here from there.
  • Not in so many words, she viewed my new handset as just another exotic creation of a transnational technocracy using technology to get us to spend our obsessive consumerist, materialist dollars.
  • Orphaned and blinded from childhood, he became an ascetic freethinker and materialist.
  • Materialists who hold that the mind is a complex physical system deny that it is possible for there to be an Evil Genius world, since, on their view, your mind could not possibly exist in a matterless world. Dr. Nishad
  • It seems to be a connector or a medium between the materialistic world and the spiritual world.
  • Materialistic types can turn the page because there are no riches awaiting the winner.
  • Those with a materialist mindset seem quite comfortable in loosening up their evidential thresholds whenever it suits them. Are Stereochemical Explanations Causally Sufficient?
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