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rich

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adj/ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/[ˈɹʷɪt͡ʃ]
  1. 1

    Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

    • In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]
    • The richest person in the world got even richer Friday, with Musk’s net worth hitting a record $347.8 billion, Bloomberg reported.
  2. 2

    Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.

    • a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; a very rich chocolate cake
    • 1709-1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning High sauces and rich spices are fetch'd from the Indies.
  3. 3

    Remunerative.

    • All racists I grew up with have rich jobs.
  4. 4

    Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.

    • a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop
    • rich in fiber; rich in traditions
  5. 5

    Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.

    • rich soil or land; a rich mine
  6. 6

    Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.

    • a rich endowment; a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents
  7. 7

    Not faint or delicate; vivid.

    • a rich red colour
  8. 8

    Very amusing.informal

    • The scene was a rich one.
    • a rich incident or character
  9. 9

    Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.informal

    • That's rich, coming from you.
    • Now, if money be a marketable commodity like flour, as the Witness states, is it not rather a rich idea that of selling the use of a barrel of flour instead of the barrel of flour itself?
  10. 10

    Pornographic; titillating.slanguncommon

noun/ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/[ˈɹʷɪt͡ʃ]
  1. 1

    The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society.pluralplural-only

    • When the poor have no more to eat, they will eat the rich.
  2. 2

    the second placer in Tycoonpluralplural-only

verb/ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/[ˈɹʷɪt͡ʃ]
  1. 1

    To enrich.obsoletetransitive

    • And than he shall be riched ſo, That it may faile nevermo
    • With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd
  2. 2

    To become rich.intransitiveobsolete

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