Synonyms for materialistic
ma·te·ri·al·is·tic

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1. materialistic, mercenary, worldly-mindedadjective

   marked by materialism

   Synonyms:
   bourgeois, mercenary, conservative, mercantile, worldly-minded, free-lance(a), freelance(a), mercenary(a), moneymaking(a)

   Antonyms:
   upper-class, lower-class, unworldly, low-class

2. bourgeois, conservative, materialisticadjective

   conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

   "a bourgeois mentality"

   Synonyms:
   bourgeois, mercenary, conservative, buttoned-down, worldly-minded, cautious, button-down

   Antonyms:
   low-class, lower-class, upper-class, unworldly

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1. List of paraphrases for "materialistic":

   materialist, material

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1. Malcolm Muggeridge:

   Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

2. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   Communism, avowedly secularistic and materialistic, has no place for God. This I could never accept,... I strongly disagreed with Communism’s ethical relativism… there are no fixed, immutable principles; consequently, almost anything—force, violence, murder, lying—is a justifiable means to the ‘millennial’ end.

3. Kim Kardashian-West:

   I know this sounds crazy, but I know that was meant to happen to me. I don't want to start crying, but I feel like that was so meant to happen to me, i'm such a different person. I don't want to start crying anymore. It was meant to happen to me. I really feel like things happen in your life to teach you things. It was probably no secret -- and you see it on the show -- I was being flashy and I was definitely materialistic before.

4. Wyndham Lewis:

   With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

5. Richard Pryor:

   There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.