rich

Noun

• people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group)
  • "only the very rich benefit from this legislation"
• The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society.

Adjective

• Having abundant wealth or resources; highly flavorful or fertile.
• possessing material wealth
  • "her father is extremely rich"
  • "many fond hopes are pinned on rich uncles"
• having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources)
  • "blessed with a land rich in minerals"
  • "rich in ideas"
  • "rich with cultural interest"
• high in mineral content; having a high proportion of fuel to air; ,
  • "a rich vein of copper"
  • "a rich gas mixture"
• suggestive of or characterized by great expense
  • "a rich display"

Adjective Satellite

• of great worth or quality
  • "a rich collection of antiques"
• marked by great fruitfulness
  • "rich soil"
• strong; intense
  • "a rich red"
• very productive
  • "rich seams of coal"
• containing plenty of fat, or eggs, or sugar
  • "rich desserts"
  • "they kept gorging on rich foods"
• marked by richness and fullness of flavor
  • "a rich ruby port"
• pleasantly full and mellow
  • "a rich tenor voice"
• affording an abundant supply
  • "a rich supply"

Adj

• Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
• Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.
• Remunerative.
• Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
• Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
• Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
• Not faint or delicate; vivid.
• Very amusing.
• Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.
• Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
• Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.
• Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.
• Of a fuel-air mixture: having more fuel (thus less air) than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
• Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

Verb

• To enrich.
• To become rich.

Examples

• a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry
• a rich endowment; a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents
• a rich incident or character
• a rich red colour
• a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop
• Her strategy for Scrabble was rich with potential bonus plays and open lanes.
• mixed up a batch that was quite rich
• rich in fiber; rich in traditions
• rich soil or land; a rich mine
• That's rich, coming from you.
• The ETF is trading rich to NAV right now; we can arb this by selling the ETF and buying the underlying constituents.
• The scene was a rich one.
• When the poor have no more to eat, they will eat the rich.

Synonyms

ample, copious, deep, fat, fertile, full-bodied, plenteous, plentiful, productive, racy, rich people, robust, bow-legged wi' brass, comfortably off, filthy rich, loaded, minted, moneybags, moneyed, of means, oofy, rich, rich as Croesus, rolling, rolling in dough, rolling in it, upper crust, wealthy, well off, well-endowed, well-heeled, well-to-do

Antonyms

lean, poor, poor people, affluent, cheap, comfortably off, flush, loaded, low, pecunious, plain, rich, scarce, unformatted, vanilla, wealthy, well off, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do

Related Words

nouveau riche

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