wealthy
having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
characterized by, pertaining to, or suggestive of wealth: a wealthy appearance.
rich in character, quality, or amount; abundant or ample: a novel that is wealthy in its psychological insights.
Origin of wealthy
1synonym study For wealthy
Other words for wealthy
Opposites for wealthy
Other words from wealthy
- wealth·i·ly, adverb
- wealth·i·ness, noun
- o·ver·wealth·y, adjective
- quasi-wealthy, adjective
- sub·wealth·y, adjective
- su·per·wealth·y, adjective
- un·wealth·y, adjective
Other definitions for Wealthy (2 of 2)
a variety of red apple, grown in the U.S., ripening in early autumn.
Origin of Wealthy
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How to use wealthy in a sentence
Covax asks wealthier countries to fund the development and manufacturing of the vaccine candidates.
Who should get the Covid-19 vaccine first? Ethicists are fiercely debating how to vaccinate billions of people. | Sigal Samuel | November 20, 2020 | VoxI have not imagined what it would be like to toil in the Dupont Circle mansion of a wealthy brewer.
The pandemic isn’t stopping D.C.’s annual history conference | John Kelly | November 11, 2020 | Washington PostHe’s Peter Todbaum, a wildly charismatic, possibly mad, fantastically wealthy Hollywood producer.
Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Arrest’ imagines a kinder, gentler apocalypse | Ron Charles | November 10, 2020 | Washington PostWe are one of the few, if not the only, wealthy country in the world that ties health-care coverage to employment.
How to Succeed by Being Authentic (Hint: Carefully) (Ep. 438) | Stephen J. Dubner | November 5, 2020 | FreakonomicsIn other wealthy countries, the prevalence of physical pain reported by adults without a college degree increased by 4 percent between those born in 1950 and those born in 1990.
‘Deaths of despair’ are rising. It’s time to define despair | Bruce Bower | November 2, 2020 | Science News
British Dictionary definitions for wealthy
/ (ˈwɛlθɪ) /
possessing wealth; affluent; rich
of, characterized by, or relating to wealth
abounding: wealthy in friends
Derived forms of wealthy
- wealthily, adverb
- wealthiness, noun
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