2009년 3월 27일 금요일

material (as it relates to economic/physical wellbeing)

[Cobuild] 5. ADJ : usu ADJ n
Material things are related to possessions or money, rather than to more abstract things such as ideas or values.
  • Every room must have been stuffed with material things.     
  • the material world.  
  • ≠   spiritual   
[AmH] 2. Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; bodily: 
  • "the moral and material welfare of all good citizens" Theodore Roosevelt.
[Collins Essential] 2. of or affecting economic or physical wellbeing: material prosperity


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