wealthy

1. (plural only) Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.Examples: "... whether consumption patterns of the wealthy are more or less polluting than those of the poor depends on the contaminant in question."; "The wealthy pay most of the taxes but the uberwealthy hardly pay any at all: they hold stock and property and live off debt borrowed against that collateral."Synonyms: richcountablepluralplural-onlyuncountable

2. (uncommon, countable) A rich person.Examples: "F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower."; "it was possible for a group like the Libertarians to hope that a couple of weakminded wealthies might donate the seed money to get a campaign rolling."; "Bernice is a nice, sardonic tale of envy and young wealthies of the pre-flapper era, when a girl who bobbed her hair was thought loose by the flask-bearing blades who tried to get her tight."countableuncommon