英和和英

発音

• IPA: /məˈtiːɹɪəlɪst/

名詞

materialist (plural materialists)

1. Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.
   • 2007 March 2, Christopher Orlet, “The Look-at-Me Generation”, in The American Spectator‎:

     Ironically, today's generation has become the little materialists and "fame whores" (New York Magazine's term) their boomer parents so reviled.

2. A follower or proponent of philosophical materialism.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     It is weary work enough to argue with an ordinary materialist, who hurls statistics and whole strata of geological facts at your head, whilst you can only buffet him with deductions and instincts and the snowflakes of faith, that are, alas! so apt to melt in the hot embers of our troubles.

同意語

• hylic, hyloist, hylist, hylicist (Gnosticism, derogatory)

形容詞

materialist (comparative more materialist, superlative most materialist)

1. (philosophy) Of or concerning materialism.
2. Synonym of materialistic, concerned only with material things.

同意語

• materialistic; see also hylozoic

派生語