Thesaurus:wealthy

Thesaurus

wealthy

English

Adjective

Sense: possessing financial wealth

Synonyms

• bow-legged wi' brass (idiomatic, humorous, Yorkshire)
• comfortably off
• filthy rich
• loaded
• minted (chiefly British, Ireland, slang)
• moneyed
• moneybags    [⇒ thesaurus]
• of means
• oofy (dated, UK, slang)
• rich    [⇒ thesaurus]
• rich as Croesus
• rolling
• rolling in dough
• rolling in it
• upper crust
• wealthy
• well-endowed
• well-heeled
• well off
• well-to-do

Antonyms

• impoverished    [⇒ thesaurus]
• poor

Hyponyms

• independently wealthy
• uberwealthy
• ultrarich
• ultrawealthy
• billionaire
• millionaire
• new money
• nouveau riche
• old money
• born with a silver spoon in one's mouth

Hypernyms

• affluent
• solvent
• prosperous    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• wealth    [⇒ thesaurus]
• moneybags    [⇒ thesaurus]
• sugar daddy
• nabob
• well-paid

Further reading

• Roget's Thesaurus Classification

  Class V. Words Relating to the Voluntary Powers

  Division II. Intersocial Volition

  Section IV. Possessive Relations

  4. Monetary Relations

  803. “wealth” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

• “wealthy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.