disapproval If you describe a person or society as materialistic, you are critical of them because they attach too much importance to money and material possessions. During the 1980s Britain became a very materialistic society. concerned only with money and possessions rather than things of the mind such as art, religion, or moral beliefs - used in order to show disapproval
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
{s} preoccupied with material matters, associated with the belief that physical comfort is the highest value