materialistic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   a noticeable focus on and/or admiration for consumer goods, particularly expensive luxury items, or wealth in general

   My date was so materialistic and had an apartment full of unused expensive furniture.

2. 2
   adj

   Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.

   Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals).

3. 3
   adj

   Synonym of materialist, of or concerning materialism.

   But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.

4. 4
   adj

   conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

Etymology

From material + -istic.