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rich
adjective as in having a lot of money
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affluent, easy, fat, prosperous, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do
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bloated, comfortable, fat-cat, filthy rich, gilded, in clover, in the money, loaded, made of money, moneyed, opulent, propertied, rolling in it, upscale, well provided for, worth a million
adjective as in abundant, well-supplied
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elegant, expensive, fertile, full, gorgeous, lush, plentiful, smart, splendid, valuable
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abounding, ample, classy, copious, costly, deluxe, elaborate, embellished, exquisite, extravagant, exuberant, fecund, fruitful, high-class, lavish, luxurious, magnificent, ornate, palatial, plenteous, posh, precious, priceless, productive, prolific, resplendent, ritzy, snazzy, spiffy, stylish, sumptuous, superb, swanky, well-endowed
adjective as in flavorful
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full-bodied, highly flavored, nourishing, nutritious, oily, sustaining
adjective as in full in color or sound
adjective as in very funny
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amusing, comical, diverting, droll, farcical, foolish, hilarious, humorous, incongruous, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, ridiculous, risible, side-splitting, splitting
noun as in wealthy people or institutions
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bountiful, landed, monied, nouveau riche, old money, upper crust, well-to-do
Example Sentences
The housing authority has aggressively pursued some of the poorest residents in Annapolis, one of the country’s oldest and richest cities.
It held thousands of visitors, beautiful music, salmon dinners, and rich, deep conversations.
Jio is the brainchild of Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man and head of a petrochemical-focused empire, Reliance Industries.
Exclusive patents and high prices that sometimes make lifesaving medicines unaffordable in rich countries often render them completely unavailable in the poor world, they argue.
Lowe’s ratio of price to estimated earnings for the next 12 months is around 21, which Morningstar’s Katz describes as “rich,” while Home Depot trades at around 26 times estimated forward earnings.
In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?
Or how much richer a few rich Mexicans are going to get in the process?
Liberal Democrats like to blow their bugles about how all the big money in politics comes from rich Republicans.
Since then, the rising gap between the rich and middle- and lower-income families has risen to the fore.
The relationships, and motivations of their chief participants, are as tangled and shady as you expect of the super-rich.
Sometimes necessity makes an honest man a knave: and a rich man a honest man, because he has no occasion to be a knave.
Do you want the marriage of your daughter with the rich and Honourable Harry broken?
It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.
They are so rich in harmony, so weird, so wild, that when you hear them you are like a sea-weed cast upon the bosom of the ocean.
Excretion of these substances is greatly increased by a diet rich in nuclei, as sweetbreads and liver.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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