Wealthy
adj, noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively. countable, plural, plural-only, uncountable
"... whether consumption patterns of the wealthy are more or less polluting than those of the poor depends on the contaminant in question."
- 2 A certain cultivar of American apple from Minnesota.
"Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers."
- 3 A rich person. countable, uncommon
"F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower."
- 1 Possessing financial wealth; rich.
"As a result of these causes the grazier marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the graziers, only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted."
- 2 Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.
- 1 having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value wordnet
Example
More examples"The wealthy, self-indulgent young man felt oddly drawn to the strict, ascetic life led by members of some monastic orders."
Etymology
From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).
Named by Peter Gideon (1820–1899), creator of the cultivar, after his wife, Wealthy (Hull) Gideon.
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