Crossword-Solution: MATERIALIST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Materialist | n. | One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter. |
| Materialist | n. | One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MATERIALIST | anagram | MARITALTIES |
We have 7 clues for the answer “MATERIALIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Devotee of worldly goods. | 1 answer |
| Person who sees value in things? | 1 answer |
| someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter | 1 answer |
| someone with great regard for material possessions | 1 answer |
| PERSON dealing with money | 26 answers |
| impious person | 27 answers |
| worldling | 44 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with MATERIALIST (5)
Corliss had moved to rooms on another floor of the hotel, the day after that eccentric and somewhat ominous person had called to make an "investment." Ray's shadowy forebodings concerning that former apartment had encountered satire: Corliss was a "materialist" and, at the mildest estimate, an unusually practical man, but he would never sleep in a bed with its foot toward the door; southern Italy had seeped into him.
Women who did not get through life so well as Caroline, who could not make such good terms either with fortune or their husbands, who did not find their health so unfailingly good, or hold their looks so well, or manage their children so easily, or give such distinction to all they did, were fond of stamping Caroline as a materialist, and called her hard.
What happened?” “Nothing! On my word! I merely saw a vision and dreamed a dream.” “You! A rank materialist! Saw a vision and dreamed a dream! And you call it nothing.
And that I should be the subject--I, the sceptic, the materialist! At least, I have shown that my devotion to science is greater than to my own personal consistency.
Are you a materialist? Suppress, as useless _entites_, the three persons in God; then, starting directly from heat, light, and electro-magnetism,--which, according to the author, are the three original fluids, the three primary external manifestations of Will, Intelligence, and Love,--you have a materialistic and atheistic cosmogony.
Quotes with MATERIALIST (3)
Ruby: ... What's so good about being 20? I call them the materialist years. The years we get distracted by all the bullshit. Then we cop on when we hit our 30s and spend those years trying to make up for the 20s. But your 40s? Those years are for enjoying it. Rosie: Hmmm good point. What are the 50s for? Ruby: Fixing what you fucked up in your 40s.Rosie: Great. Looking forward to it.
About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough — and even miraculous enough if you insist — I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find …
The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in the land of nothing and Nirvana. They are both helpless — one because he must not grasp anything, and the other because he must not let go of anything. The Tolstoyan’s will is frozen by a Buddhist instinct that all special actions are evil. But the Nietzscheite’s will is quite equall…
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Used 2 times in crossword archives (1954–2020).