English Explanatory Dictionary

rich

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
  2. Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.
  3. Remunerative.
  4. Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
  5. Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
  6. Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
  7. Not faint or delicate; vivid.
  8. Very amusing.
  9. Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.
  10. Pornographic; titillating.
  11. Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
  12. Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.
noun
  1. The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society.
  2. the second placer in Tycoon
verb
  1. To enrich.
  2. To become rich.
name
  1. A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
  2. A surname transferred from the given name.
  3. A place in the United States:
  4. A township in Cook County, Illinois.
  5. A township in Anderson County, Kansas.
  6. A township in Lapeer County, Michigan.
  7. An unincorporated community in Coahoma County, Mississippi.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/ [ˈɹʷɪt͡ʃ] en-us-rich.ogg /ɹɪt͡ʃ/

Word forms

rich richer more rich richest most rich riches riching riched

Etymology

From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source.

Synonyms

bow-legged wi' brass comfortably off filthy rich loaded minted moneyed moneybags of means oofy rich rich as Croesus rolling rolling in dough rolling in it upper crust wealthy well-endowed well-heeled well off well-to-do

Antonyms

poor almsless arm badly off bankrupt beggared beggarly boracic broke broken broker than the Ten Commandments depauperate destitute dirt poor disadvantaged down and out down at heel down on one's luck down on one's uppers empty-handed feeling the pinch flat goodless hard up impecunious impoverished in need indigent insolvent lower-class necessitous needy oofless pauperized penniless penurious pinched pok kai poor as a church mouse poor as a rat poor as Job possessionless poverty-ridden poverty-stricken shillingless skint stone-broke stony-broke strapped stuck threadbare unwealthy wealthless low scarce plain unformatted vanilla lean cheap

Related words

nouveau riche

Derived words

antirich be part of life's rich tapestry bird-rich cash rich derich engine-rich filthy rich generich get-rich-quick get rich quicker hood rich ice-rich it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God megarich neo-rich neutron-rich new-rich nickel rich nickel-rich nigger rich nigger-rich nonrich oil-rich overrich poor little rich boy poor little rich girl rhymes-with-rich rich as Croesus rich bitch rich client richdom richen richery riches rich face rich for one's blood Rich Grove rich Internet application richish rich-kid rich kid Richland Richlands richlet richling richly rich man rich man's disease rich media Richmond richness richsplain rich tea biscuit rich tea-biscuit rich text richweed semirich species-rich stinking rich strike it rich

Translations

Afrikaans: ryk Ainu: イコロアン Albanian: i pasur Albanian: kamun (gheg) Aleut: tukux̂ Arabic: غَنِيّ Arabic: غني Armenian: հարուստ Asturian: ricu Azerbaijani: zəngin Azerbaijani: varlı Bashkir: бай Basque: aberats Belarusian: бага́ты Bengali: ধনী Breton: pinvidik Bulgarian: бога́т Burmese: ဌေး Burmese: ကြွယ် Buryat: баян Catalan: ric Eastern Min Chinese: 富 Chinese Mandarin: 富有 Chinese Mandarin: 富裕 Chinese Mandarin: 有錢 /有钱 Chinese Mandarin: 闊 /阔 Crimean Tatar: zengin Crimean Tatar: bay Czech: bohatý Old Czech: bohatý Danish: rig Dutch: rijk Esperanto: riĉa Estonian: rikas Evenki: баян Faroese: ríkur Finnish: rikas Finnish: äveriäs French: riche West-Frisian: ryk Friulian: ric Friulian: siôr Galician: rico Georgian: მდიდარი German: reich Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌲𐍃 Greek: πλούσιος Greek: εύπορος Ancient Greek: πλούσιος Haitian Creole: rich Hawaiian: waiwai
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