superrich
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.40 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Very wealthy people, considered as a class.
Example Sentences
- "But the overwhelming concern of the super-rich—mentioned by nearly every parent who participated in the survey—is their children."
- "The trickle-down benefit of spending by the super-rich is insignificant in comparison to the insidious damage."
- "In the ballroom of the five star Savoy hotel on the Strand in central London, the super-rich and their advisers were this week advised that they may soon need to watch out for people with “pitchforks and torches” unless they do more to use their fortunes to help the millions struggling with the cost of living crisis."
- "Many progressive economists, however, argue that enormous fortunes like Mr. Musk’s inherently distort both the economic and the political systems, giving the superrich too many ways to avoid regulation, taxation and oversight."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English rich English superrich From super- + rich.