wealthy

adj
/ˈwɛl.θi/

Etymology

From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).

  1. inherited from welthy

Definitions

  1. Possessing financial wealth

    Possessing financial wealth; rich.

    • 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.
  2. Abundant in quality or quantity

    Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.

  3. Synonym of rich

    Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.

    • ... 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.
  4. + 2 more definitions
    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.
      • 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.
    2. A certain cultivar of American apple from Minnesota.

      • Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at wealthy. 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.

01wealthy02wealth03prosperity04prosperous05affluent06plenteous07abundant

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

7 hops · closes at wealthy

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