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rich

adj
/ˈɹɪt͡ʃ//ɹɪt͡ʃ/

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.

  1. derived from *h₃rḗǵs✻
  2. derived from *rīxs✻
  3. inherited from *rīks✻ — “king, ruler”
  4. inherited from *rīkijaz✻ — “kingly, powerful, rich”
  5. inherited from *rīkī✻ — “powerful, rich”
  6. inherited from rīċe — “powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”
  7. inherited from riche — “strong, powerful, rich”

Definitions

  1. Wealthy

    Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

    • 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.

  2. Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.

    • 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.

  3. Remunerative.

    • All racists I grew up with have rich jobs.
  4. ›+ 17 more definitions

    1. Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.

      • 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.

    2. Yielding large returns

      Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.

      • rich soil or land; a rich mine

    3. Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients

      Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.

      • a rich endowment; a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents
      • rich and various gems

    4. Not faint or delicate

      Not faint or delicate; vivid.

      • a rich red colour

    5. Very amusing.

      • The scene was a rich one.
      • a rich incident or character

    6. Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or…

      Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.

      • 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.

    7. Pornographic

      Pornographic; titillating.

    8. Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.

      • 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.

    9. Of a solute-solvent solution

      Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.

      • mixed up a batch that was quite rich

    10. Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or…

      Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

      • The ETF is trading rich to NAV right now; we can arb this by selling the ETF and buying the underlying constituents.

    11. The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society.

    12. the second placer in Tycoon

    13. To enrich.

      • And than he shall be riched ſo, That it may faile nevermo
      • With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd

    14. To become rich.

    15. A diminutive of the male given name Richard.

    16. A surname transferred from the given name.

    17. A place in the United States

      A place in the United States:

The neighborhood

Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rich. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at rich. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at rich

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA