[よくばりにいさん, yokubariniisan] (exp) greedy materialistic older brother; dirty old man [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Materialistic \Ma*te`ri*al*is"tic\, Materialistical
\Ma*te`ri*al*is"tic*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the
nature of materialism.
[1913 Webster]
But to me his very spiritualism seemed more
materialistic than his physics. --C. Kingsley.
[1913 Webster]
2. Primarily concerned with material objects and worldly
activities, as contrasted with spiritual, moral or
philosophical concerns; especially, concerned primarily
with gaining money and the things that money can buy.
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
materialistic
adj 1: marked by materialism [syn: {materialistic}, {mercenary},
{worldly-minded}]
2: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle
class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: {bourgeois},
{conservative}, {materialistic}]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
