Associations to the word «Materialistic»

Wiktionary

MATERIALISTIC, adjective. Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
MATERIALISTIC, adjective. Of or concerning philosophical materialism.

Dictionary definition

MATERIALISTIC, adjective. Marked by materialism.
MATERIALISTIC, adjective. Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats