English edit

Etymology edit

ultra- +‎ wealthy

Adjective edit

ultrawealthy (comparative more ultrawealthy, superlative most ultrawealthy)

  1. Extremely wealthy.
    • 2009 January 30, Lynnley Browning, “A Rich Income in ’06 Was $263 Million”, in New York Times[1]:
      The rising wealth of the nation’s richest taxpayers will most likely intensify debate among tax and policy analysts about the equitability of the tax code, which analysts say favors the ultrawealthy.
    • 2022 April 6, Michael Steinberger, “How the ​​‘Homeless Billionaire’ Became a Philosopher King”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
      Reid Hoffman [] says that some ultrawealthy individuals have a tendency to be “in broadcast mode,” as he describes it []