Definition of "wealthy" in English

adjective

1. Possessing financial wealth; rich.

2. Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.

noun

1. (plural only) Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.

   • ... whether consumption patterns of the wealthy are more or less polluting than those of the poor depends on the contaminant in question.
   • The wealthy pay most of the taxes but the uberwealthy hardly pay any at all: they hold stock and property and live off debt borrowed against that collateral.

2. (uncommon, countable) A rich person.

   • F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower.