materialist

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.
    — 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.
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or concerning materialism.
  2. Synonym of materialistic, concerned only with material things.

词形变化

materialists plural more materialist comparative most materialist superlative

词汇关系

近义词
hylic hyloist hylist hylicist materialistic hylozoic
衍生词
antimaterialist nonmaterialist postmaterialist unmaterialist

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English material
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English materialist
From material + -ist.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English material
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English materialist
From material + -ist.
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