Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- a person who is markedly more concerned with material things than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
- an adherent of philosophical materialism.
adjective
- concerned with material things; materialistic.
- of or relating to philosophical materialism or its adherents.
1660s and after in various philosophical and theological senses, on model of French matérialiste, from material (n.) + -ist. Also cf. materialism.