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materialistic
adjective as in thinking mainly about physical things
Example Sentences
“He’s not materialistic in any obvious way,” said the professor.
Communist regimes rejected Romantic and Freudian theories alike and, in Mr. Delbourgo’s words, attacked collectors’ “materialistic love of things and social status.”
The story originally satirized materialistic baby boomers stymied by shifting gender roles.
"I always had these yearnings for a lifestyle that was different to the materialistic lifestyle," he explains.
Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, meant to make us squirm as they uncover our insecurities and the faults in our materialistic facades.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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