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, financially stable and comfortable.

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.