adjectiveadjective: materialisticexcessively concerned with material possessions; money-oriented."we're living in a highly materialistic society"synonyms:worldly, consumerist, money-oriented, money-grubbing;Morecapitalistic, bourgeois;acquisitive, greedy, grasping, avaricious, rapacious;informalyuppie"a materialistic society that worships consumer goods"antonyms:spiritual, religious, intellectual, aesthetic
All these materialistictendencies seem to have one explanation.But in spite of this its materialistic affinities are unmistakable.But it is quite possible that his scientific studies had bred in him, as in many others at that time, a materialistic, or at least a naturalistic, turn of mind; indeed, we should expect as much in a man of Van den Ende's somewhat rebellious temperament.Materialistic views were at the time rampant and fashionable, and faith in immortality was at a low ebb.But you can never, at any one point, say, from the scientific or mechanical or materialisticstandpoint, this " had to be."
