wealthy

Forms

1.Possessing financial wealth; rich.
- Gleefully and legally intruding upon the sanctum of the wealthy linksters, we walked the mitigation meadows.
- 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.
2.Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.
- Tom is a wealthy man.

1.A rich person.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower.
- 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.
- 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.
2.A certain cultivar of American apple from Minnesota.
- Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers.
3.Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.
- 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.

Uncommon· #2927

From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y.

Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).