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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wealthy \Wealth"y\, adjective [Compar. {Wealthier}; superl. {Wealthiest}.]
1. Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich.
A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. --Shak.
Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. --Ps. lxvi. 12.
2. Hence, ample; full; satisfactory; abundant. [R.]
The wealthy witness of my pen. --B. Jonson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
wealthy
adjective: having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations" [syn: {affluent}, {flush}, {loaded}, {moneyed}] [also: {wealthiest}, {wealthier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "wealthy": abounding, abounding in riches, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, big-rich, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, comfortable, comfortably situated, copious, diffuse, disgustingly rich, easy, effuse, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, flush, frightfully rich, full, galore, generous, in clover, in funds, in good case, in luxury, in plenty, in quantity, in the money, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, inexhaustible, lavish, liberal, loaded, luxuriant, luxurious, made of money, many, maximal, moneyed, much, numerous, on Easy Street, on velvet, oofy, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, prosperous, provided for, rampant, replete, rich, rich as Croesus, rife, riotous, rolling in money, running over, successful, superabundant, teeming, wallowing in wealth, warm, well provided for, well-fixed, well-found, well-furnished, well-heeled, well-off, well-provided, well-stocked, well-to-do, wholesale
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