wealthy.
Possessing financial wealth; rich.
Meaning & usage
Possessing financial wealth; rich.
Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).
Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.
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.
A rich person.
F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).
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