Pragmatic vs Materialistic - What's the difference?
pragmatic | materialistic |
Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.
* The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic , but unattractive.
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philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
* Sir W. Hamilton
* M. Arnold
Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
Of or concerning philosophical materialism.
* Charles Kingsley
As adjectives the difference between pragmatic and materialistic
is that pragmatic is practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory while materialistic is being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.pragmatic
English
Alternative forms
* pragmatick (archaic) * pragmatique (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Nor indeed are these restrictions pragmatic'' in nature: i.e. the ill-formedness of the ''heed''-sentences in (60) is entirely different in kind from the oddity of sentences like:
(61) !That man will eat any car which thinks he?s stupid
which is purely ''pragmatic (i.e. lies in the fact that (61) describes the kind of bizarre situation which just doesn?t happen in the world we are familiar with, where cars don?t think, and people don?t eat cars).
- Pragmatic history.
- Pragmatic poetry.
Synonyms
* (practical) down-to-earth, functional, practical, utilitarian, realisticAntonyms
* idealisticDerived terms
* pragma * pragmatically * pragmaticism * pragmaticsExternal links
* *materialistic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.
