wealthy
Plural: wealthies
Adjective Satellite
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- "wealthy corporations"
Adj
- Possessing financial wealth; rich.
- Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.
Noun
- Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.
- A rich person.
Adjective
- Having a great deal of money, resources, or possessions.
Examples
- F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower.
- Playing ’WEALTHY’ on a triple word score made his opponents envy his letter draw.
- 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.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).
Synonyms
affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, bow-legged wi' brass, comfortably off, filthy rich, minted, moneybags, of means, oofy, rich, rich as Croesus, rolling, rolling in dough, rolling in it, upper crust, wealthy, well off, well-endowed, well-heeled, well-to-do
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 16
wealthy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordwealthy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wealthy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary