wealthy
wealthy
Definition
wealthy (wel′t̸hē)
adjective wealth′i·er, wealth′i·est
- having wealth; rich; prosperous; affluent
- of, characterized by, or suggestive of wealth
- rich or abundant (in something specified) talk wealthy in nuances
wealth′i·ly adverb
wealth′i·ness noun
Wealthy
Definition
Wealthy (wel′t̸hē)
noun
☆ a red, medium-sized fall apple
wealthy
Synonyms
wealthy
Usage Examples
Preposition: as
- result: The production and trade of these aromatics were in the hands of the ancient South Arabians, who became extremely wealthy as a result.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: This time the objective is not to ' cleanse the master race ' , but to make the masters wealthier.
Modifies a noun
- businessman: Which reminds me of a story of a wealthy Texan businessman who held a large party at his ranch with 32 oz steaks galore.
- landowner: A typical parish would benefit from generous endowments, most notably from its wealthiest local landowner, the occupant of the Manor House.
- merchant: In 1770 he married Mary Norris, daughter of a wealthy merchant.
- patron: At the same time, however, wealthy patrons demanded a wider range of luxury goods.
- industrialist: Nick is drawn into this charmed circle - going to country houses, rubbing shoulders with wealthy industrialists.
- suburb: These burglaries take place in Durban's " wealthy white suburbs " .
Modifying Another Word
- fabulously: How did this man become so fabulously wealthy from a life supposedly devoted to public service?
- immensely: Standing on important trade-routes and drawing on the natural resources of Mesopotamia, it was immensely wealthy.
- moderately: Our council serves a moderately wealthy collection of outer city suburbs, typical mortgage belt issues are prominent.
- fantastically: In which Gilbert is contacted by a fantastically wealthy refugee who wants to invest in the hotel business.
- independently: He came down from Oxford in 1763 an independently wealthy man following the death of his father in 1761.
- hugely: They have been encouraged to remain childish to the benefit of hugely wealthy religious institutions.
Infinitive complement
- own: Parks were once a vey good way of ensuring that your posterity if you were wealthy enough to own a fair bit of land.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Often become wealthy in later life through their own efforts.
- grow: By 800 BC society had begun to recover and even grow wealthy.
- feel: People feel wealthy because they have equity, but don't realize that it's illusory.
- get: Yet the nation would be large enough to not be invaded by other nation the moment it got wealthy.
Preposition: of
- world: These 200 people on my left would be the wealthy of the world, who consume 80 per cent of the available resources.
wealthy Quotes
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthyand wealthyand dead.
There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea.
