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rich

adjective · noun

Simple meaning

Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

Pronunciation

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IPA pronunciation (US)

ˈɹɪtʃ

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Word Review

Definition

Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.

adjective

  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. Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.

  6. Of a fuel-air mixture: having more fuel (thus less air) than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.

noun

  1. with the

    The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society.

  2. A place in the United States

  3. A diminutive of the male given name Richard.

Word at a Glance

Difficulty
A2 · Elementary
Frequency
Common
Typical Use
Everyday English

Word Aura™

How this word commonly comes across.

Aura for this meaning

This meaning: Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

Used this way, rich is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.

Emotional tone
Neutral
Formality
Neutral
Intensity
Not strongly marked
How common
Moderately common
Connotation
No strong connotation
Usage feel
Neutral and straightforward

Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.

More ways to use rich

  • “Her father is extremely rich.”adjective
  • “Blessed with a land rich in minerals.”adjective
  • “Only the very rich benefit from this legislation.”noun

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Word Family

Related forms, grouped by how they connect.

Inflected forms

Grammatical variations of the same word.

  • richesnounPlural form

    An abundance of material possessions and resources.

Word family

Words built from the same root.

  • richnessnounDerived noun

    The property of being extremely abundant.

  • richlyadverbDerived adverb

    To an ample degree or in an ample manner.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

  • rich mannounCompound term

    A man who is wealthy.

  • rich peoplenounCompound term

    People who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group).

  • rich personnounCompound term

    A person who possesses great material wealth.

More about this wordSynonyms, forms, origin

Synonyms

Sense: wealthy

abundant

Antonyms

adjective

Sense: wealthy

poor

noun

Sense: rich people of a society

poor

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