wealthy
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English
Etymology
From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).
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Adjective
wealthy (comparative wealthier or more wealthy, superlative wealthiest or most wealthy)
- Possessing financial wealth; rich.
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
- 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.
- Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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rich
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abundant
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Noun
wealthy (countable and uncountable, plural wealthies)
- (plural only) Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.
- 2009 Oct., Rachel A. Bouvier, "Sulfur Dioxide Emissions and Per Capita Income", Environment & Development Economics, Vol. 14, No. 5:
- ... 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.
- 2009 Oct., Rachel A. Bouvier, "Sulfur Dioxide Emissions and Per Capita Income", Environment & Development Economics, Vol. 14, No. 5:
- (uncommon, countable) A rich person.
- 1975 December 6, “A Real Presidential Choice Is Being Ignored”, in Evening Independent:
- 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.
- 1977 April 4, “Public TV Presents miracle Series”, in Argus-Press:
- 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.
- 2006 November 16, “Can the Democrats Deliver?”, in Washington Post:
- 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.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower.