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English Dictionary: materialistic by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
materialistic
adj
  1. marked by materialism [syn: materialistic, mercenary, worldly-minded]
  2. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
    Synonym(s): bourgeois, conservative, materialistic
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Materialistic \Ma*te`ri*al*is"tic\, Materialistical
   \Ma*te`ri*al*is"tic*al\, a.
      Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the
      nature of materialism.
  
               But to me his very spiritualism seemed more
               materialistic than his physics.               --C. Kingsley.
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