rich – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of rich

Adjective: rich

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativericher
Superlativerichest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore rich
Superlativemost rich

Sample Sentences

  • “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]” [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […] [2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:]
  • The richest person in the world got even richer Friday, with Musk’s net worth hitting a record $347.8 billion, Bloomberg reported. [2024 November 22, Ramishah Maruf, “Elon Musk has never been richer. He’s now worth nearly $350 billion”, in CNN:]
  • a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; a very rich chocolate cake
  • It is the richest food I have ever eaten, and for this reason I soon learned to partake of it sparingly. [1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 116:]
  • 1709-1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning
  • High sauces and rich spices are fetch'd from the Indies.
  • All racists I grew up with have rich jobs. [2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 79:]
  • a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop
  • rich in fiber; rich in traditions
  • Tho' my Date of mortal Life be short, it shall be glorious; / Each minute shall be rich in some great action. [1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert:]
  • The gorgeous East with richest hand / Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold. [1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • Elantris is quite an exceptional read, a wonderfully rich world of living breathing characters, great plot, and some very original ideas. [2011 December 13, Antony Jones, “Book review of 'Elantris' by Brandon Sanderson”, in SF Book:]
  • For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions. Mexicans quaff more fizzy drinks than any other country; Peru has the highest density of fast-food joints in the world. [2013 July 27, “Battle of the bulge”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8846:]
  • Sham Shui Po might be one of Hong Kong’s poorest neighbourhoods but it has a rich immigrant history and a glut of fantastic street-food joints. [2021 August 18, Lee Cobaj, “Best things to do in Hong Kong”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2021:]
  • rich soil or land; a rich mine
  • a rich endowment; a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents
  • rich and various gems (Comus) [1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:]
  • a rich red colour
  • The scene was a rich one.
  • a rich incident or character
  • That's rich, coming from you.
  • Now, if money be a marketable commodity like flour, as the Witness states, is it not rather a rich idea that of selling the use of a barrel of flour instead of the barrel of flour itself? [1858, William Brown (of Montreal), The Commercial Crisis: Its Cause and Cure (page 28)]
  • It is a bit rich to oppress, torture, imprison, enslave, deport and proscribe a people for 200 years, and then take credit for the fact that they are democratic at the end of it. [2017 March 8, Shashi Tharoor, “‘But What About the Railways... ?’ The Myth of Britain’s Gifts to India”, in The Guardian, retrieved 14 Apr 2018:]
  • A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages. [2002, David Austerberry, The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming:]
  • Some rich text email messages contain formatting information that's best viewed with Microsoft Word. [2003, Patricia Cardoza, Patricia DiGiacomo, Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003:]
  • But what did matter was that the new web platform provided a rich experience. [2008, Aaron Newman, Adam Steinberg, Jeremy Thomas, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation:]
  • mixed up a batch that was quite rich
  • The ETF is trading rich to NAV right now; we can arb this by selling the ETF and buying the underlying constituents.

Adjectives inflected like rich

wholsom, seldom, scared, solemn, silent, beloved, uptight, perfect, useless, up-tight, selfish, distinct, discreet, Dutch, reckless, bumfuck, worthless, slender, faithfull, shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source.
2. Cognate with Dutch rijk, German reich, Danish rig, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rik, Faroese and Icelandic ríkur, Portuguese and Spanish rico, French riche, Italian ricco. See: Dutch Adjectives 'rijk', German Adjectives 'reich', French Adjectives 'riche', Italian Adjectives 'ricco'.

Verbs referencing "rich"

German Adjectives reich, French Adjectives riche, Portuguese Adjectives rico.