MATERIALIST Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

materialist

noun

Definition of materialist

as in philistine

a person who is chiefly interested in material comfort and is hostile or indifferent to art and culture a materialist who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

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At the time, Truell hadn’t founded a company; but three years later, the venture capitalist persuaded her firm, BoxGroup, to invest in the Gen Z engineering savant’s nascent business.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Jones, a former venture capitalist, is up to roughly $10 million in self-funding, according to the Federal Election Commission website.

— Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of capitalist

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Embracing a visual vocabulary of the lowbrow and the rudimentary is a tried-and-true method of rebelling against a culture that feels vapid or corporatized.

— Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 6 May 2026
Executives at NBCUniversal frame Bravo as a brand that represents a particular type of lowbrow-highbrow reality TV, and that even if the channel vanished, the brand could live on.

— Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026

Definition of lowbrow

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That’s not to jinx the master clown who’s currently doddering around in Argan’s shoes on Broadway.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
In several descriptions of these amateur events, including some of his own, Hemingway sounds less like a matador than a rodeo clown.

— Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of clown

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