wealthy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).
Base: wealth
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: wealthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more wealthy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wealthiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most wealthy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wealthies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Possessing financial wealth; rich.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
As people stall feed through the years, or if they are wealthier to begin with, the money is used to build houses and buy metal roof sheets, or to buy bicycles, ox-carts and breeding cows.
Gleefully and legally intruding upon the sanctum of the wealthy linksters, we walked the mitigation meadows.
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
ProPublica’s data shows that while some wealthy Americans, such as hedge fund managers, would pay more taxes under the current Biden administration proposals, the vast majority of the top 25 would see little change. […] No one among the 25 wealthiest avoided as much tax as Buffett, the grandfatherly centibillionaire.
gloss: Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural
plural-only
uncountable
examples: ... whether consumption patterns of the wealthy are more or less polluting than those of the poor depends on the contaminant in question.
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.
gloss: A rich person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncommon
examples: F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower.
it was possible for a group like the Libertarians to hope that a couple of weakminded wealthies might donate the seed money to get a campaign rolling.
Bernice is a nice, sardonic tale of envy and young wealthies of the pre-flapper era, when a girl who bobbed her hair was thought loose by the flask-bearing blades who tried to get her tight.
Ending tax cuts to wealthies would only increase tax revenues by $40 - $60 billion a year - about 20% of current deficit - so it's a waste of time.
Synonyms: bow-legged wi' brass
comfortably off
filthy rich
loaded
minted
moneyed
moneybags
of means
oofy
rich
rich as Croesus
rolling
rolling in dough
rolling in it
upper crust
wealthy
well-endowed
well-heeled
well off
well-to-do
Antonyms: impoverished
poor
Related words: upscale
wealth
sugar daddy
nabob
well-paid
Derived words: independently wealthy
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