Materialist
[mə'tɪərɪəlɪst] or [mə'tɪrɪəlɪst]
Definition
(noun.) someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter.
(noun.) someone with great regard for material possessions.
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Definition
(n.) One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter.
(n.) One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it.
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Examples
- She's a fishwife, a fishwife, she is such a materialiSt. And all so sordid. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Not one bit did I believe him; but I dared not contradict: doctors are so self-opinionated, so immovable in their dry, materialist views. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A dirty materialist as she is. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I have heard that the sight of the dead has confirmed materialists in their belief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Let him seek here the mighty brawn, the muscle, the abounding blood, the full-fed flesh he worshipped: let all materialists draw nigh and look on. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The Spartans were a fine nation of materialists. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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