Definition of Wealthy

Wealthy

Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich.

Hence, ample; full; satisfactory; abundant.

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Wealthy Quotations

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund Burke

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
Jack Welch

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
Ayrton Senna

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
Dave Barry

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
James Thurber

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
Anton Chekhov

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.
Jim Carrey

Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it.
Kato Kaelin

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.
Martin Sheen

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
Roger Daltrey

All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
Ethel Waters

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.
Michael Bloomberg

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.
Michael Bloomberg

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.
Elton John

I'm a very wealthy man.
Elton John

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.
Peter Singer

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
Garth Brooks

This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation.
Corrine Brown

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
Andrew Young

And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.
Mitch Daniels

My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.
Rick Perry

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.
Paul Theroux

No, I'm not wealthy.
Benny Hinn

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.
Anna Nicole Smith

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.
Charles Rangel

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.
Martha Plimpton

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.
Ron Chernow

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.
Robert McChesney

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Wealthy Translations

wealthy in Afrikaans is ryk
wealthy in Danish is rig
wealthy in Dutch is rijk, vermogend, gefortuneerd
wealthy in Finnish is rikas
wealthy in French is riche
wealthy in Italian is ricco, benestante, facoltoso
wealthy in Latin is copiosus, dives
wealthy in Norwegian is rik
wealthy in Portuguese is rico
wealthy in Spanish is adinerado, pudiente, acaudalado

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