rich
/ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun
Forms richer richest riches riching riched
- adjective Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
- adjective Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour. “a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; a very rich chocolate cake”
- adjective Remunerative.
- adjective Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling. “a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop”
- adjective Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful. “rich soil or land; a rich mine”
- adjective Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly. “a rich endowment; a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents”
- adjective Not faint or delicate; vivid. “a rich red colour”
- adjective (informal) Very amusing. “The scene was a rich one.”
- noun (with the) The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society. “When the poor have no more to eat, they will eat the rich.”
- noun (card games) the second placer in Tycoon
- verb (obsolete, transitive) To enrich.
- verb (obsolete, intransitive) To become rich.
- proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
- proper noun A surname transferred from the given name.
- proper noun A township in Cook County, Illinois.
- proper noun A township in Anderson County, Kansas.
- proper noun A township in Lapeer County, Michigan.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Coahoma County, Mississippi.
Synonyms
bow-legged wi' brass comfortably off filthy rich loaded fat minted moneyed moneybags of means oofy rich as Croesus rolling rolling in dough rolling in it upper crust wealthy well-endowed well-heeled well off well-to-do rich people fertile productive deep full-bodied racy robust ample copious plenteous
Antonyms
poor almsless arm badly off bankrupt beggared beggarly boracic broke broken broker than the Ten Commandments depauperate lean
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.
Cognate with Dutch rijk, German reich, Danish rig, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rik, Faroese and Icelandic ríkur, Portuguese and Spanish rico, French riche, Italian ricco.
From Richard. The surname also derives from rich as a nickname.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; affluent; --opposed to Ant: poor. "Rich merchants." Chaucer.
- adjective Hence, in general, well supplied; abounding; abundant; copious; bountiful; as, a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop.
- verb To enrich. [Obs.] Gower.
Etymology [OE. riche, AS. rice rich, powerful; akin to OS. riki, D. rijk, G. reich, OHG. rihhi, Icel. rikr, Sw. rik, Dan. rig, Goth. reiks; from a word meaning, ruler, king, probably borrowed from Celtic, and akin to L. rex, regis, king, regere to guide, rule. sq. root283. See Right, and cf. Derrick, Enrich, Rajah, Riches, Royal.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “rich”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details