rich
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source.
Cognate with Dutch rijk, German reich, Danish rig, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rik, Faroese and Icelandic ríkur, Portuguese and Spanish rico, French riche, Italian ricco.
Inflected forms:
form: richer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more rich
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: richest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most rich
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
pos: adj
examples: “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]
The richest person in the world got even richer Friday, with Musk’s net worth hitting a record $347.8 billion, Bloomberg reported.
gloss: Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.
pos: adj
examples: a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry
It is the richest food I have ever eaten, and for this reason I soon learned to partake of it sparingly.
1709-1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning
High sauces and rich spices are fetch'd from the Indies.
gloss: Remunerative.
pos: adj
examples: All racists I grew up with have rich jobs.
gloss: Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
pos: adj
examples: a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop
rich in fiber; rich in traditions
Tho' my Date of mortal Life be short, it shall be glorious; / Each minute shall be rich in some great action.
The gorgeous East with richest hand / Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.
Elantris is quite an exceptional read, a wonderfully rich world of living breathing characters, great plot, and some very original ideas.
For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions. Mexicans quaff more fizzy drinks than any other country; Peru has the highest density of fast-food joints in the world.
Sham Shui Po might be one of Hong Kong’s poorest neighbourhoods but it has a rich immigrant history and a glut of fantastic street-food joints.
gloss: Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
pos: adj
examples: rich soil or land; a rich mine
gloss: Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
pos: adj
examples: a rich endowment; a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents
rich and various gems
gloss: Not faint or delicate; vivid.
pos: adj
examples: a rich red colour
gloss: Very amusing.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The scene was a rich one.
a rich incident or character
gloss: Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: That's rich, coming from you.
Now, if money be a marketable commodity like flour, as the Witness states, is it not rather a rich idea that of selling the use of a barrel of flour instead of the barrel of flour itself?
It is a bit rich to oppress, torture, imprison, enslave, deport and proscribe a people for 200 years, and then take credit for the fact that they are democratic at the end of it.
gloss: Pornographic; titillating.
pos: adj
tags: slang
uncommon
gloss: Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
pos: adj
examples: A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages.
Some rich text email messages contain formatting information that's best viewed with Microsoft Word.
But what did matter was that the new web platform provided a rich experience.
gloss: Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.
pos: adj
examples: mixed up a batch that was quite rich
gloss: Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.
pos: adj
gloss: Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
pos: adj
examples: The ETF is trading rich to NAV right now; we can arb this by selling the ETF and buying the underlying constituents.
gloss: The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are...
...if he lived he would never write about her, he knew that now. Nor about any of them. The rich were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Scott Fitzgerald and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The rich are different from you and me." And how some one had said to Scott, Yes, they have more money. But that was not humorous to Scott. He thought they were a special glamourous race and when he found they weren't it wrecked him just as much as any other thing that wrecked him.
...Hem is headed for Wyoming,—& wasn't that reference to Scott, in his splendid story otherwise, contemptable, & more so because he said "I am getting to know the rich" & Molly Colum said—we were at lunch together—"the only difference between the rich & other people is that the rich have more money."
This is the same Randian bullshit that we've been hearing from people like Brooks for ages and its entire premise is really revolting and insulting—this idea that the way society works is that the productive "rich" feed the needy "poor," and that any attempt by the latter to punish the former for "excesses" might inspire Atlas to Shrug his way out of town and leave the helpless poor on their own to starve. That's basically Brooks's entire argument here. Yes, the rich and powerful do rig the game in their own favor, and yes, they are guilty of "excesses"—but fucking deal with it, if you want to eat.
When the poor have no more to eat, they will eat the rich.
gloss: the second placer in Tycoon
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Related words: nouveau riche
Derived words: antirich
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ultrarich
ultra rich
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unrich
eat the rich
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: ryk
lang: Ainu
word: イコロアン
roman: ikoro-an
lang: Albanian
word: i pasur
lang: Albanian
word: kamun (gheg)
lang: Aleut
word: tukux̂
lang: Arabic
word: غَنِيّ
roman: ḡaniyy
lang: Arabic
word: غني
roman: ḡani
lang: Armenian
word: հարուստ
roman: harust
lang: Asturian
word: ricu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: zəngin
lang: Azerbaijani
word: varlı
lang: Bashkir
word: бай
roman: bay
lang: Basque
word: aberats
lang: Belarusian
word: бага́ты
roman: baháty
lang: Bengali
word: ধনী
roman: dhoni
lang: Breton
word: pinvidik
lang: Bulgarian
word: бога́т
roman: bogát
lang: Burmese
word: ဌေး
roman: hte:
lang: Burmese
word: ကြွယ်
roman: krwai
lang: Buryat
word: баян
roman: bajan
lang: Catalan
word: ric
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 富
roman: bou
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 富有
roman: fùyǒu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 富裕
roman: fùyù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 有錢 /有钱
roman: yǒuqián
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 闊 /阔
roman: kuò
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: zengin
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: bay
lang: Czech
word: bohatý
lang: Old Czech
word: bohatý
lang: Danish
word: rig
lang: Dutch
word: rijk
lang: Esperanto
word: riĉa
lang: Estonian
word: rikas
lang: Evenki
word: баян
roman: bajan
lang: Faroese
word: ríkur
lang: Finnish
word: rikas
lang: Finnish
word: äveriäs
lang: French
word: riche
lang: West-Frisian
word: ryk
lang: Friulian
word: ric
lang: Friulian
word: siôr
lang: Galician
word: rico
lang: Georgian
word: მდიდარი
roman: mdidari
lang: German
word: reich
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌲𐍃
roman: gabigs
lang: Greek
word: πλούσιος
roman: ploúsios
lang: Greek
word: εύπορος
roman: éfporos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πλούσιος
roman: ploúsios
lang: Haitian Creole
word: rich
lang: Hawaiian
word: waiwai
lang: Hebrew
word: עָשִׁיר
roman: ashír
lang: Hindi
word: अमीर
roman: amīr
lang: Hindi
word: धनी
roman: dhanī
lang: Hindi
word: संपन्न
roman: sampann
lang: Hindi
word: गनी
roman: ganī
lang: Hindi
word: धनवान
roman: dhanvān
lang: Hungarian
word: gazdag
lang: Icelandic
word: ríkur
lang: Ido
word: richa
lang: Indonesian
word: kaya
lang: Ingrian
word: rikas
lang: Ingrian
word: karvain
lang: Ingrian
word: rahakas
lang: Ingrian
word: rahalliin
lang: Ingrian
word: paksu
lang: Interlingua
word: ric
lang: Irish
word: saibhir
lang: Italian
word: ricco
lang: Japanese
word: 裕福な
roman: yūfuku na
lang: Japanese
word: 豊かな
roman: yutaka na
lang: Japanese
word: 富有な
roman: fuyū na
lang: Japanese
word: 金持ちの
roman: kanemochi no
lang: Javanese
word: sugih
lang: Old Javanese
word: sugih
lang: Kazakh
word: бай
roman: bai
lang: Kazakh
word: дәулетті
roman: däulettı
lang: Khmer
word: ធនិន
roman: thĕəʼnɨn
lang: Khmer
word: មហទ្ធន
roman: mĕəʼhatthŭən
lang: Korean
word: 풍부하다
roman: pungbuhada
lang: Korean
word: 부유하다
roman: buyuhada
lang: Central Kurdish
word: دۆڵەمەند
roman: dollemend
lang: Central Kurdish
word: خاوەن پارە
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бай
roman: bay
lang: Lao
word: ມັ່ງ
roman: mang
lang: Lao
word: ລວຍ
roman: luāi
lang: Latin
word: dīves
lang: Latin
word: dīs
lang: Latin
word: locuplēs
lang: Latvian
word: bagāts
lang: Latvian
word: turīgs
lang: Latvian
word: mantīgs
lang: Lithuanian
word: turtingas
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: rish
lang: Low German
word: riek
lang: Luxembourgish
word: räich
lang: Macedonian
word: богат
roman: bogat
lang: Malay
word: kaya
lang: Maltese
word: għani
lang: Manchu
word: ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨ
roman: bayan
lang: Māori
word: whairawa
lang: Minangkabau
word: kayo
lang: Mizo
word: hausa
lang: Mongolian
word: баян
roman: bajan
lang: Mongolian
word: элбэг
roman: elbeg
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: jūmêi
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: shīumēi
lang: Nanai
word: баян
roman: bajan
lang: Navajo
word: atʼį́
lang: Norman
word: riche
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: rik
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: rik
lang: Occitan
word: ric
lang: Old Occitan
word: ric
lang: Oromo
word: dureessa
lang: Pashto
word: بای
roman: bāy
lang: Pashto
word: بډا
roman: baḍã
lang: Pashto
word: غني
roman: ǧaní
lang: Persian
word: غنی
roman: ġani
lang: Persian
word: ثروتمند
roman: servatmand
lang: Persian
word: رایومند
roman: râyumand
lang: Polish
word: bogaty
lang: Portuguese
word: rico
lang: Portuguese
word: rica
lang: Romani
word: barvalo
lang: Romanian
word: bogat
lang: Romanian
word: avut
lang: Russian
word: бога́тый
roman: bogátyj
lang: Russian
word: состоя́тельный
roman: sostojátelʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: зажи́точный
roman: zažítočnyj
lang: Russian
word: обеспе́ченный
roman: obespéčennyj
lang: Russian
word: иму́щий
roman: imúščij
lang: Salar
word: bar
lang: Sanskrit
word: धन्य
roman: dhánya
lang: Sanskrit
word: धनिक
roman: dhanika
lang: Sanskrit
word: ईशान
roman: īśāna
lang: Sanskrit
word: रयि
roman: rayi
lang: Sanskrit
word: धनवत्
roman: dhanavat
lang: Sanskrit
word: धनिन्
roman: dhanin
lang: Scots
word: rik
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: beairteach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: богат
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: имућан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bogat
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: imućan
lang: Shor
word: пай
lang: Sicilian
word: riccu
lang: Sidamo
word: dureessa
lang: Slovak
word: bohatý
lang: Slovene
word: bogàt
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: bogaty
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: bohaty
lang: Spanish
word: rico
lang: Spanish
word: pesudo
lang: Swahili
word: tajiri
lang: Swedish
word: rik
lang: Tagalog
word: mayaman
lang: Tajik
word: сарватманд
roman: sarvatmand
lang: Tajik
word: ғанӣ
roman: ġani
lang: Tajik
word: бой
roman: boy
lang: Tamil
word: பணக்கார
roman: paṇakkāra
lang: Tatar
word: бай
roman: bay
lang: Telugu
word: సంపన్న
roman: sampanna
lang: Telugu
word: ధనిక
roman: dhanika
lang: Thai
word: รวย
roman: ruai
lang: Thai
word: มีเงิน
roman: mii-ngən
lang: Tibetan
word: ཕྱུག་པོ
roman: phyug po
lang: Tocharian B
word: śāte
lang: Turkish
word: varlıklı
lang: Turkish
word: varsıl
lang: Turkish
word: zengin
lang: Turkmen
word: baý
lang: Ukrainian
word: бага́тий
roman: bahátyj
lang: Urdu
word: امیر
roman: amīr
lang: Urdu
word: دھنی
roman: dhanī
lang: Uyghur
word: باي
roman: bay
lang: Uzbek
word: boy
lang: Venetan
word: rico
lang: Vietnamese
word: giàu
lang: Volapük
word: liegik
lang: Welsh
word: ariannog
lang: Welsh
word: goludog
lang: Welsh
word: mwynfawr
lang: Welsh
word: cyfoethog
lang: Yiddish
word: רײַך
roman: raykh
lang: Yucatec Maya
word: ayik'al