rich

adjective

1. 1

   Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

   “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”

   In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]

   The richest person in the world got even richer Friday, with Musk’s net worth hitting a record $347.8 billion, Bloomberg reported.

2. 2

   Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.

   a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; a very rich chocolate cake

   It is the richest food I have ever eaten, and for this reason I soon learned to partake of it sparingly.

   1709-1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning High sauces and rich spices are fetch'd from the Indies.

3. 3

   Remunerative.

   All racists I grew up with have rich jobs.

4. 4

   Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.

   a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop

   rich in fiber; rich in traditions

   Tho' my Date of mortal Life be short, it shall be glorious; / Each minute shall be rich in some great action.

   The gorgeous East with richest hand / Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.

5. 5

   Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.

   rich soil or land; a rich mine

6. 6

   Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.

   a rich endowment; a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents

   rich and various gems

7. 7

   Not faint or delicate; vivid.

   a rich red colour

8. 8

   informalVery amusing.

   The scene was a rich one.

   a rich incident or character

9. 9

   informalRidiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.

   That's rich, coming from you.

   Now, if money be a marketable commodity like flour, as the Witness states, is it not rather a rich idea that of selling the use of a barrel of flour instead of the barrel of flour itself?

   It is a bit rich to oppress, torture, imprison, enslave, deport and proscribe a people for 200 years, and then take credit for the fact that they are democratic at the end of it.

10. 10

    slangPornographic; titillating.

11. 11

    Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.

    A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages.

    Some rich text email messages contain formatting information that's best viewed with Microsoft Word.

    But what did matter was that the new web platform provided a rich experience.

12. 12

    Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.

    mixed up a batch that was quite rich

13. 13

    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.

14. 14

    Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

    The ETF is trading rich to NAV right now; we can arb this by selling the ETF and buying the underlying constituents.

noun

1. 1

   The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society.

   Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are...

   Hem is headed for Wyoming,—& wasn't that reference to Scott, in his splendid story otherwise, contemptable, & more so because he said "I am getting to know the rich" & Molly Colum said—we were at lunch together—"the only difference between the rich & other people is that the rich have more money."

   When the poor have no more to eat, they will eat the rich.

2. 2

   the second placer in Tycoon

verb

1. 1

   obsoleteTo enrich.

   And than he shall be riched ſo, That it may faile nevermo

   With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd

2. 2

   obsoleteTo become rich.

Forms

comparative

richer, more rich

superlative

richest, most rich

past tense

riched

past participle

riched

present participle

riching

third person singular

riches