From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y.

• (America) IPA: /ˈwɛl.θi/

wealthy (comparative wealthier, superlative wealthiest)

1. Possessing financial wealth; rich.
2. Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.

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• See Thesaurus:impoverished

• French: riche, nanti
• German: wohlhabend, reich
• Italian: benestante, abbiente, agiato, facoltoso, denaroso, danaroso, ricco
• Portuguese: rico
• Russian: бога́тый
• Spanish: adinerado, rico, próspero, acomodado

• Portuguese: farto

wealthy

1. (plural only) Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.
   • 2009 Oct., Rachel A. Bouvier, "Sulfur Dioxide Emissions and Per Capita Income", Environment & Development Economics, Vol. 14, No. 5:

     ... whether consumption patterns of the wealthy are more or less polluting than those of the poor depends on the contaminant in question.

   The wealthy pay most of the taxes but the uberwealthy hardly pay any at all: they hold stock and property and live off debt borrowed against that collateral.
2. (uncommon, countable) A rich person.

   F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower.

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Named by Peter Gideon (1820–1899), creator of the cultivar, after his wife, Wealthy (Hull) Gideon.

wealthy (plural wealthys)

1. A certain cultivar of American apple from Minnesota.
   • 1975, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Joy of Cooking, page 129:

     Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers.