Adjective: materialistic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more materialistic |
| Superlative | most materialistic |
Sample Sentences
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Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals). [2019 August 20, Fancy Feast, “On Being a Fetish”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020:]
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But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. [1852, Charles Kingsley, Phaeton, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers:]
Adjectives inflected like materialistic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English material
3. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
5. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
6. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
7. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
8. Proto-Hellenic *-tās
9. Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
10. Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
11. Latin -istader.
12. Old French -istebor.
13. Middle English -ist
14. English -ist
15. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
16. Proto-Italic *-ikos
17. Latin -icuslbor.
18. Old French -iquebor.
19. Middle English -ik
20. English -ic
21. English -istic
22. English materialistic
23. From material + -istic.
Verbs referencing "materialistic"
Finnish Adjectives
materialistinen.