well-to-do

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌwɛltəˈdu/

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Adjective

well-to-do (comparative more well-to-do, superlative most well-to-do)

1. Rich, prosperous, financially stable and comfortable.

   Some philosophers aver that the well-to-do should be taxed at a higher rate than poorer people.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

   • 2023 August 23, Nigel Harris, “Comment: End damaging drift at Euston”, in RAIL, number 990, page 3:

     There was a single arrivals platform, nearest to King's Cross. The large arch beneath the clock gave access to Hansom carriages clip-clopping up the cobbled ramp from the main gate in Euston Road, directly onto the platform, to meet well-to-do passengers.

Synonyms

• affluent, well-fixed, well-heeled; for more, see Thesaurus:wealthy

Translations

rich

• Arabic: مُقْتَدِر (muqtadir)
• Bulgarian: богат (bg) (bogat), заможен (bg) (zamožen)
• Catalan: benestant (ca), adinerat (ca) m, ric (ca) m
• Dutch: welgesteld (nl)
• Finnish: varakas (fi), rikas (fi), vauras (fi), varoissaan
• French: riche (fr), aisé (fr)
• German: bemittelt (de) f
• Hungarian: tehetős (hu), jómódú (hu)
• Irish: brabachúil
• Italian: benestante (it), agiato (it) m, abbiente (it), facoltoso (it) m, denaroso m, danaroso (it) m
• Persian: مرفه (fa) (moraffah)
• Russian: богатый (ru) (bogatyj), состоятельный (ru) (sostojatelʹnyj)
• Swedish: välbärgad (sv), välbeställd (sv), förmögen (sv), välsituerad (sv)
• Tagalog: mariwasa
• Ukrainian: забезпечений (zabezpečenyj), заможний (zamožnyj)