Definitions for materialist

materialist ma·te·ri·al·ist

Spelling: [muh-teer-ee-uh-list]
IPA: /məˈtɪər i ə lɪst/

Materialist is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 1004 anagrams from letters in materialist (aaeiilmrstt).

Definitions for materialist

noun

  1. a person who is markedly more concerned with material things than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
  2. an adherent of philosophical materialism.

adjective

  1. concerned with material things; materialistic.
  2. of or relating to philosophical materialism or its adherents.

Origin of materialist

From the New Latin word māteriālista, dating back to 1660-70. See material, -ist

Examples for materialist

But we put it on the irrefragable logic of the materialist's own premises and conclusions.

He was an Infidel, or, as he chose to term it, a materialist.

The transformation of the mystic was sustaining the hypothesis of the materialist.

“The external world,” says the materialist––“Does not exist,” says the Idealist.

It is customary to condemn the American as a materialist because of his worship of success.

But first, let us do so from the materialist's own stand-point.

The materialist and the sceptic have forcible arguments on their side.

No materialist can deny the correctness of that complexion to which we all must come at last.

In short, the cow does fulfill the materialist theory of history: that is why the cow has no history.

The materialist answers: "The matter of the brain creates thought."

Word Value for materialist
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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