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consumerist

consumerist adjective: of or pertaining to consumerism; consumeristic.

Adjective

consumerist (comparative more consumerist, superlative most consumerist)

  1. Of or pertaining to consumerism; consumeristic.
    • consumerist society
    • In a consumerist hypersexualized environment where bare-midriffed fifteen-year-olds are the pedophilic standard of desirability, becoming older is coded as a set of deficiencies.2011, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America, page 125

Noun

consumerist (plural consumerists)

  1. A proponent of consumerism.

Forms of consumerist

Adjective
comparativemore consumerist
superlativemost consumerist
Noun
pluralconsumerists

Origin of consumerist

From consumer + -ist.

Words formed from consumerist

Questions about consumerist

What does consumerist mean?
Consumerist means of or pertaining to consumerism; consumeristic.
What part of speech is consumerist?
Consumerist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near consumerist in the dictionary

  1. consumer-grade
  2. consumerdom
  3. consumerish
  4. consumerism
  5. consumerisms
  6. consumerist
  7. consumeristic
  8. consumeristically
  9. consumerists
  10. consumerization
  11. consumerizations

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