well-to-do
/ˌwɛltəˈdu/
well-to-do adjective: rich, prosperous, financially stable and comfortable.
Adjective
well-to-do (comparative more well-to-do, superlative most well-to-do)
- Rich, prosperous, financially stable and comfortable.
- Some philosophers aver that the well-to-do should be taxed at a higher rate than poorer people.
- 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- affluent, well-fixed, well-heeled, for more, wealthy
well-to-do meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Sanskrit
well-to-do in Tamil
- செல்வச் செழிப்பான, வசதிவாய்ப்புள்ள
well-to-do in Malayalam
- ധാരാളം വകയുളള, അല്ലലില്ലാതെ ജീവിക്കുന്ന, സുഖജീവിതം നയിക്കുന്ന
well-to-do in Kannada
- ಸಂಪನ್ನ, ಶ್ರೀಮಂತ, ಸಿರಿವಂತನಾದ
well-to-do in Sanskrit
- well-to-do
- धनिक dhanika
More languagesFewer languages
- well-to-do in Tagalog
- mariwasa
- well-to-do in Arabic
- مُقْتَدِر muqtadir
- well-to-do in Persian
- مرفه moraffah
Synonyms of well-to-do
- affluent
- well-fixed
- well-heeled
- for more
- wealthy
Forms of well-to-do
| comparative | more well-to-do |
|---|---|
| superlative | most well-to-do |
Questions about well-to-do
- What does well-to-do mean?
- Well-to-do means rich, prosperous, financially stable and comfortable.
- What is well-to-do in Tamil?
- Well-to-do in Tamil is செல்வச் செழிப்பான, வசதிவாய்ப்புள்ள. See Well-to-do meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is well-to-do?
- Well-to-do is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce well-to-do?
- Well-to-do is pronounced /ˌwɛltəˈdu/ (US).
Words near well-to-do in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: well-to-do (page history and authors); well-to-do (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); well-to-do (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); well-to-do (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); धनिक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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