wealthy
/ˈwɛl.θi/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "As a result of these causes the grazier marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the graziers, only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted."
- "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."
- "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."
- "ProPublica’s data shows that while some wealthy Americans, such as hedge fund managers, would pay more taxes under the current Biden administration proposals, the vast majority of the top 25 would see little change. […] No one among the 25 wealthiest avoided as much tax as Buffett, the grandfatherly centibillionaire."
- "... whether consumption patterns of the wealthy are more or less polluting than those of the poor depends on the contaminant in question."
Etymology
From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: welthy
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɛl.θi/
- British English: /ˈwɛl.θi/
Usage
Inflected Forms
wealthier (comparative)
more wealthy (comparative)
wealthiest (superlative)
most wealthy (superlative)
wealthies (plural)
Wealthys (plural)