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| Main Entry: |
materialistic
[muh-teer-ee-uh-lis-tik]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking mainly about physical things |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, banausic, carnal, earthly-minded, earthy, greedy, material, mundane, object-oriented, possessive, profane, secular, sensual, temporal, terrestrial, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | spiritual, thrifty, ungreedy |
| Main Entry: | commercial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intended for financial gain |
| Synonyms: | Wall Street, exploited, for profit, investment, materialistic, mercenary, monetary, money-making, pecuniary, profitmaking, venal |
| Antonyms: | noncommercial, not-for-profit |
| Main Entry: | physical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tangible, material |
| Synonyms: | concrete, corporeal, environmental, gross, materialistic, natural, objective, palpable, phenomenal, ponderable, real, sensible, solid, somatic, substantial, visible |
| Antonyms: | immaterial, mental, spiritual |
Example Sentences
- You're not going to take any materialistic things with you.
- On the other hand, he may have contributed to the disaster of an increasingly materialistic culture.
- Students come to universities with a remarkably materialistic view of what a college education can provide.
| Main Entry: | secular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not spiritual or religious |
| Synonyms: | civil, earthly, laic, laical, lay, material, materialistic, nonclerical, nonreligious, of this world, profane, temporal, unsacred, worldly |
| Notes: | sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects, while secular means not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature |
| Antonyms: | godly, holy, religious, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | temporal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | material, worldly |
| Synonyms: | banausic, carnal, civil, earthly, earthy, fleshly, lay, materialistic, mortal, mundane, nonsacred, nonspiritual, physical, profane, secular, sensual, subcelestial, sublunary, terrestrial, unhallowed, unsacred, unsanctified, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | mental, otherworldly, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | worldly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | material, nonreligious |
| Synonyms: | carnal, earthly, earthy, fleshly, human, lay, materialistic, mundane, natural, physical, practical, profane, secular, sublunary, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, ungodly |
| Antonyms: | immaterial, otherworldly, religious |
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