wealthy

1. 1

   Possessing financial wealth; rich.

   • As people stall feed through the years, or if they are wealthier to begin with, the money is used to build houses and buy metal roof sheets, or to buy bicycles, ox-carts and breeding cows.
   • Gleefully and legally intruding upon the sanctum of the wealthy linksters, we walked the mitigation meadows.
2. 2

   Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.

syn. bow-legged wi' brass · comfortably off · filthy rich · loaded · fat · minted · moneyed · moneybags · of means · oofy · rich · rich as Croesus

ant. impoverished · poor

1. 1

   Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.countablepluralplural-only

   • ... whether consumption patterns of the wealthy are more or less polluting than those of the poor depends on the contaminant in question.
   • The wealthy pay most of the taxes but the uberwealthy hardly pay any at all: they hold stock and property and live off debt borrowed against that collateral.
2. 2

   A rich person.countableuncommon

   • F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower.

syn. moneybags