materialistic• Darwin challenged this approach with his revival of the materialisticalternative.• Christmas has become materialistic and commercial.• I am not materialistic and I am not snobby, I hope.• Western societies are becoming more materialistic as their wealth increases.• Marx's philosophy of history, however, is materialistic as well as dialectic.• This reversed the materialisticconcept that conditions determinepsychology.• But the problem is that we are not materialistic enough.• The conception about reacting mechanically to events is not a purely materialistic one, as it may seem at first sight.• a materialistic person• They were still thinking of the kingdom in materialistic terms.• Kids these days are very materialistic. They only seem to be interested in expensivetoys and computer games.• We are of the deeply held belief that many human beings have come to behave as materialistictyrants.