consumerist

[US]/kən'sjuːmərɪst/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.a person who advocates for or promotes consumerism
adj.relating to or characterized by consumerism

Phrases & Collocations

consumerist society

Real-world Examples

Post-war austerity had thawed, and the country had entered a consumerist, “candyfloss world”.

Source: The Economist - Arts

In the hectic consumerist China of the late 20th century he cut a deliberately quaint figure.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

His ruling Prosperity Party has ditched the state-led economics of the EPRDF for a more liberal, consumerist kind of capitalism.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

I got into minimalism because I realized I was just a part of the consumerist machine.

Source: MBTI Personality Types Guide

The stuff that our modern consumerist carbon-powered culture makes us buy endlessly and often for no reason.

Source: TED Talks (Video Edition) October 2020 Collection

Observations on the consumerist nature of how we live, they were hung together to form repetitive patterns of colour like a supermarket shelf.

Source: Curious Muse

Especially today's consumerist society has engraved in us the work hard play hard mentality, and that all good stuff is found outside us.

Source: The meaning of solitude.

And our rites and rituals, too: in an increasingly consumerist culture it's hard to think of many ways

Source: BBC Listening Compilation June 2015

We now realize that technology is designed to hijack our brains and make us hopelessly addicted so that we are forced to participate in an increasingly consumerist society.

Source: MBTI Personality Types Guide

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