Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having great material wealth.
- adjective Having great worth or value.
- adjective Made of or containing valuable materials.
- adjective Magnificent; sumptuous.
- adjective Abundant or productive, as.
- adjective Having an abundant supply.
- adjective Abounding in natural resources.
- adjective Having many nutrients for plant growth; fertile.
- adjective Very productive and therefore financially profitable.
- adjective Containing a large amount of choice ingredients, such as butter, sugar, or eggs, and therefore unusually heavy or sweet.
- adjective Strong in aroma or flavor.
- adjective Containing a large proportion of fuel to air.
- adjective Pleasantly full and mellow.
- adjective Warm and strong in color.
- adjective Highly varied, developed, or complex.
- adjective Informal Highly amusing, often for being absurd or preposterous.
- noun Wealthy people considered as a group. Often used with the.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Richly.
- Ruling; powerful; mighty; noble.
- Having wealth or large possessions; possessed of much money, goods, land, or other valuable property; wealthy; opulent: opposed to poor.
- Amply supplied or equipped; abundantly provided; abounding: often followed by in or with.
- Abundant in materials; producing or yielding abundantly; productive; fertile; fruitful: as, a rich mine; rich ore; rich soil.
- Of great price or money value; costly; expensive; sumptuous; magnificent: as, rich jewels; rich gifts.
- Of great moral worth; highly esteemed; invaluable; precious.
- Ample; copious; abundant; plentiful; luxuriant.
- Abounding in desirable or effective qualities or elements; of superior quality, composition, or potency.
- Hence, specifically Having a pleasing or otherwise marked effect upon the senses by virtue of the abundance of some characteristic quality.
- Pleasing to the ear; full or mellow in tone; harmonious; sweet.
- Pleasing to the eye, through strength and beauty of hue; pure and strong; vivid: applied especially to color.
- [Rich as applied to colors in zoölogy has a restricted meaning, which, however, is very difficult to define. A metallic, lustrous, or iridescent color is not rich; the word is generally applied to soft and velvety colors which are pure and distinct, as a rich black, a rich scarlet spot, etc., just as we speak of rich velvets, but generally of bright or glossy silks. Vivid is very rich or very distinct.]
- Pleasing to the sense of smell; full of fragrance; sweet-scented; aromatic.
- Excessive; extravagant; inordinate; outrageous; preposterous: commonly applied to ideas, fancies, fabrications, claims, demands, pretensions, conceits, jests, tricks, etc.: as, a rich notion; a rich idea; rich impudence; a rich joke; a rich hoax.
- [This word is often used in the formation of compounds which are self-explanatory: as, rich-colored, rich-fleeced, rich-haired, rich-laden, etc.]
- Synonyms and Affluent.
- Fertile. etc. (see
fruitful ), luxuriant, teeming. - 5 and Splendid, valuable.
- Copious, plenteous.
- Savory, delicious.
- To enrich.
- To grow rich.
- To stretch; pull.
- To direct.
- To adjust; set right.
- To address; set (one's self to do a thing).
- To dress.
- To mend; improve.
- To avenge.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Fancy Wynter, of all men, dying rich -- actually _rich_.
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Keep not from me her rich bequest: -- _rich_ indeed, -- her most valuable treasure.
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If the soil is rich -- and it can hardly be _too rich_, for these Roses, like those of the kinds treated of in the foregoing chapter, require strong food and a great deal of it in order to do themselves justice -- this bud will soon develop into a vigorous branch which, like the original one, will bear a cluster of flowers.
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To illustrate this position, having already mentioned the case of a poor and rich brother, he remarks, that this preference is given to wealth by those whom it least becomes; _it is the_ pastour _that greases or_ flatters _the rich_ brother, and will grease him on till _want makes him leave_.
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If we don't save the rich people today they might be extinct tomorrow just like the dinosaurs. * shedding a fake tear for the plight of the rich* knixphan Says:
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"He says folks are going to laugh _at_ us or _with_ us, and -- and rich people have got to _act rich_.
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"A rich English merchant?" interrupted Moses, "we Jews are acquainted pretty well with all the _rich_ English merchants.
sonofgroucho commented on the word rich
"Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be." Rita Rudner.
February 10, 2007