Synonyms for materialistic
- adjective
Most common
conservative bourgeois secular worldly mercenary materialist
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Bourgeois
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
- adj. 2
Synonym of materialist, of or concerning materialism.
Related words
- Word family
- materialism
- Other spellings
- materialistical
Example sentences
- conservative Tom is too conservative to do something like that.
- bourgeois Marriage is the true fortress of bourgeois morality.
- secular January is the first month in the secular calendar.
- worldly Dmitri found himself inside another-worldly house.
- mercenary As a mercenary, did you participate in torture sessions?
- materialist I tend to look at things from a scientific materialist perspective.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| materialistic | steady | |
| conservative | steady | |
| bourgeois | falling | |
| secular | rising | |
| worldly | rising | |
| mercenary | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- secular3, worldly2
- 8 letters
- temporal3, burgeois
- 9 letters
- bourgeois2, mercenary4
- 11 letters
- materialist5
- 12 letters
- conservative4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (secular3 = 3 syllables).