rich
IPA: rˈɪtʃ
noun
- The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society.
- A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- A place in the United States:
- A township in Cook County, Illinois.
- A township in Anderson County, Kansas.
- A township in Lapeer County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Coahoma County, Mississippi.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To enrich.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become rich.
adjective
- Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
- Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.
- Remunerative.
- Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
- Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
- Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
- Not faint or delicate; vivid.
- (informal) Very amusing.
- (informal) Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.
- (computing) Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
- Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.
- 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.
- (finance) Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
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Examples of "rich" in Sentences
- Fancy Wynter, of all men, dying rich -- actually _rich_.
- Keep not from me her rich bequest: -- _rich_ indeed, -- her most valuable treasure.
- "He says folks are going to laugh _at_ us or _with_ us, and -- and rich people have got to _act rich_.
- "A rich English merchant?" interrupted Moses, "we Jews are acquainted pretty well with all the _rich_ English merchants.
- 'You can see that this is welfare of the rich, it is socialism for the rich it's just bailing out financial institutions,' Rogers said.
- "You can see that this is welfare of the rich, it is socialism for the rich it\'s just bailing out financial institutions," Rogers said. '
- Obama: \'Americans don\'t resent the rich, they wanna be rich\ ''; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: No, Mr. President, not most Americans.
- If we don't save the rich people today they might be extinct tomorrow just like the dinosaurs. * shedding a fake tear for the plight of the rich* knixphan Says:
- To illustrate this position, having already mentioned the case of a poor and rich brother, he remarks, that this preference is given to wealth by those whom it least becomes; _it is the_ pastour _that greases or_ flatters _the rich_ brother, and will grease him on till _want makes him leave_.
- If the soil is rich -- and it can hardly be _too rich_, for these Roses, like those of the kinds treated of in the foregoing chapter, require strong food and a great deal of it in order to do themselves justice -- this bud will soon develop into a vigorous branch which, like the original one, will bear a cluster of flowers.
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