well-to-do

well-to-do

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌwɛltəˈdu/

Adjective

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

1. Rich; prosperous.

Synonyms

• affluent
• flush
• loaded
• wealthy
• well-fixed
• well-heeled
• well-off
• well-situated
• See also Thesaurus:wealthy

Translations

rich

Catalan: benestant (ca) 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) Persian: مرفه‎ (fa) (moraffah) Swedish: välbärgad (sv), välbeställd (sv), förmögen (sv), välsituerad (sv) Tagalog: mariwasa Westrobothnian: bergen

Noun

well-to-do pl (plural only)

1. People who are comparatively well off.

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

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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.