Definitions of wealth

1.   the quality of profuse abundance; " she has a wealth of talent"

2.   State or quality of being well; riches; large possessions; an extraordinary abundance of this world's goods; affluence.

3.   Those energies, faculties, and habits directly contributing to make people industrially efficient.

4.   Riches; affluence; profusion.

5.   Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.

6.   See under weal.

7.   Large possessions of any kind: riches.

8.   Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.

9.   In the private sense, all pooperty which has a money value.

10.   Riches; affluence; great abundance.

11.   Prosperity; riches; large possessions of money, goods, or land; that abundance of worldly estate which exceeds that of the greater part of the community; affluence; that which possesses exchangeable value.

12.   an abundance of material possessions and resources

13.   the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money; " great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence"

14.   In the public sense, all objects, esp. material objects, which have economic utility.

15.   property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value

16.   A great amount of property; riches; exuberance; profusion.

Antonyms for wealth

barrenness, nip, sparing, economy, fragment, molecule, inadequateness, tittle, scruple, drop, morsel, parsimony, impoverishment, lick, granule, soupcon, undersupply, dribble, hay, lack, driblet, dot, mouthful, scattering, atom, speck, inadequacy, scrap, handful, necessity, infertility, crumb, iota, thrift, jot, streak, beggary, skimpiness, bit, shred, spark, need, nugget, few, pauperism, parsimoniousness, chump change, ace, little, ray, deficiency, insufficiency, dram, providence, couple, paucity, smidgen, debts, chicken feed, dearth, fleck, scantness, particle, patch, dab, splash, skosh, scarceness, piece, section, saving, taste, peanuts, shoestring, suspicion, strain, song, dime, sterility, mote, scatter, smatter, scarcity, deficit, meagerness, smattering, liabilities, shortage, glimmer, poorness, Destituteness, whit, failure, snippet, pinch, snip, drought, indigence, Neediness, shot, frugality, want, spot, shade, penury, miserliness, ounce, tad, poverty, portion, smack, smell, crunch, lacuna, sprinkle, destitution, touch, shadow, modicum, grain, scintilla, mite, famine, nubbin, trace, hint, dash, sprinkling, pittance, indebtedness, scantiness, Flyspeck, absence, spatter, two cents, penuriousness.

Quotes of wealth

1. Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have. – Ernie Banks

2. We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long -term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel. – Frank Carlucci

3. Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is. – Sri Chinmoy

4. All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas- not money. – Robert Collier

5. All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished. – George Grey

6. The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth – Rutherford B. Hayes

7. The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. – Lucretius

8. People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned. – John Moody

9. I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go. – Evita Peron

10. Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day. – Ramakrishna

11. People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. – George Sanders

12. The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites. – George A. Smith

13. Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. – Edward Steichen

14. I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. – Sara Teasdale

15. The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate -style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale -force waters. – Andrew Lloyd Webber

Usage examples for wealth

1. “ There's many a small business like mine which, when built up, means a great big business and much wealth ” – The Rebel of the School by Mrs. L. T. Meade

2. “ Mere wealth had not added to the sum of human happiness. ” – The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp

3. “ There was one man whose progress in wealth I watched with much interest and pleasure. ” – Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope

4. “ Truth is a good, like health, wealth etc. ” – Pragmatism A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

5. “ By virtue of such a system wealth was as inevitable as human necessity; and the thought of human necessity did not greatly bother me. ” – The Complete PG Edition of The Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

6. “ A single word, the mere writing of a man's name, has swept all my wealth away. ” – Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Ann S. Stephens

7. “ I have lost my father and all his wealth said the lady, for when he hears of this matter he will make of me an example. ” – French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France

8. “ They do well, as other people can do that for them; but there are many other means of getting strength and wealth ” – Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat

9. “ They simply begged it for some kind of wealth ” – Twenty-two Goblins by Unknown

10. “ He was a plastherer be thrade whin wages was high, an' O'Grady was rowlin' in wealth ” – Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen by Finley Peter Dunne

11. “ And it is worth much to the man of wealth that there may be, near his own door, an institution to which he may send his children, and under the influence of which they may be carried forward. ” – Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions by George S. Boutwell

12. “ Beyond the hills was still all the wealth of the Columbia, of the Pacific Northwest also. ” – The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough

13. “ Such was her entrance into wealth and love and alas! ” – The Millionaire Baby by Anna Katharine Green

14. “ The pursuit or possession of wealth as an end in itself, or a means to mere selfish ends, will drive Love out of the soul. ” – The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William de Witt Hyde

15. “ I feel sure that if Sir Charles could have spoken with me before his death he would have warned me against bringing this, the last of the old race, and the heir to great wealth to that deadly place. ” – The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle

16. “ I never asked them what they had done with our father's great wealth lest they might feel ashamed. ” – Bagh O Bahar, Or Tales of the Four Darweshes by Mir Amman of Dihli

17. “ His father had acquired wealth but not in this way. ” – Masterman and Son by W. J. Dawson

18. “ At length, wealth came; my footsteps left the wild,- Again we met:- to woman grown the child: How did we meet? ” – The Poetical Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. M.P. by Edward Bulwer Lytton

19. “ I beg of you don't jump to the conclusion that I roll in wealth ” – The Madness of May by Meredith Nicholson

20. “ He had raised himself from bitter poverty to wealth by his own exertions. ” – Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

Rhymes for wealth

• health, stealth;

Idioms for wealth

• wealth of sth;