affluent
1. an affluent person;
a person who is financially well off
- the so-called emerging affluents
• Hypernyms:
rich person, wealthy person, have
2. a branch that flows into the main stream
• Syn:
feeder, tributary, confluent
• Ant:
distributary (for: tributary)
• Derivationally related forms:
feed (for: feeder)
• Hypernyms:
branch
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:
flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy
• Similar to:
rich
• Derivationally related forms:
wealth (for: wealthy), wealthiness (for: wealthy), flush (for: flush), affluence
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