WEALTHY (wealthier, wealthiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: wealthier    , wealthiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does wealthy mean? 

• WEALTHY (adjective)
  The adjective WEALTHY has 1 sense:

1. having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

  Familiarity information: WEALTHY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEALTHY (adjective)

Comparative: wealthier   
Superlative: wealthiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

Synonyms:

affluent; flush; loaded; moneyed; substantial; wealthy

Context example:

a substantial family

Similar:

rich (possessing material wealth)

Derivation:

wealth (an abundance of material possessions and resources)

wealth; wealthiness (the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money)

 Context examples 

We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made our way over to England without being suspected.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The family are anxious, and as they are exceedingly wealthy no sum will be spared if we can clear the matter up.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remember her aunt very well, Biddy Henshawe; she married a very wealthy man.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I, wealthy—gorged with gold I never earned and do not merit!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The greatest and perhaps the wealthiest.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It only remains for us to find out what this secret was which the sailor Hudson seems to have held over the heads of these two wealthy and respected men.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Grey Beaver was busy trading and getting wealthy.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But one of the study’s authors, Richard Fuller, said pollution is tied to slow economic development in wealthy and poor nations.

(Pollution is the World’s No. 1 Killer, VOA)

In those scattered circles of dim radiance might be seen the whole busy panorama of life in a wealthy and martial city.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the pursuit of which, by thrift and management, I might reasonably expect, in about two hundred years, to be the wealthiest man in the kingdom.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)