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affluent

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Adjective, Noun
 : 
af=flu=ent

CIDE DICTIONARY

affluenta. [Cf. F. affluent, L. affluens, -entis, p. pr. See Affluence.].
  •  Flowing to; flowing abundantly.  Harvey.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches.  [1913 Webster]
    "Language . . . affluent in expression."  [1913 Webster]
    "Loaded and blest with all the affluent store,
    Which human vows at smoking shrines implore.
    "  [1913 Webster]
affluentn. 
     A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

affluent, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 wealthy, rich.
2 abundant.
3 flowing freely or copiously.
--n. a tributary stream.

Idiom
affluent society a society in which material wealth is widely distributed.
Derivative
affluently adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. L affluere (as AD-, fluere flux- flow)

THESAURUS

affluent

abounding, abounding in riches, abundant, acquisitive, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, big-rich, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, comfortable, comfortably situated, confluent, copious, coursing, decurrent, defluent, diffluent, diffuse, disgustingly rich, easy, effuse, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, flowing, fluent, flush, fluxional, fluxive, frightfully rich, full, galore, generous, grasping, gulfy, gushing, in clover, in funds, in good case, in luxury, in plenty, in quantity, in the money, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, inexhaustible, lavish, liberal, loaded, luxuriant, luxurious, made of money, many, maximal, mazy, meandering, moneyed, much, numerous, on Easy Street, on velvet, oofy, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pouring, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profluent, profuse, profusive, prosperous, provided for, racing, rampant, replete, rich, rich as Croesus, rife, riotous, rolling in money, running, running over, rushing, serpentine, sluggish, streaming, successful, superabundant, surging, surgy, teeming, tidal, vortical, wallowing in wealth, warm, wealthy, well provided for, well-fixed, well-found, well-furnished, well-heeled, well-off, well-provided, well-stocked, well-to-do, wholesale

ROGET THESAURUS

affluent

Sufficiency

VB be sufficient, suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster, have enough, eat, one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill, roll in, swim in, wallow in, wanton, abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down, pour, pour in, swarm, bristle with, superabound, render sufficient, replenish, Adj, sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible, measured, moderate, full, ample, plenty, plentiful, plenteous, plenty as blackberries, copious, abundant, abounding, replete, enough and to spare, flush, choke-full, chock-full, well-stocked, well- provided, liberal, unstinted, unstinting, stintless, without stint, unsparing, unmeasured, lavish, wholesale, rich, luxuriant, affluent, wantless, big with, unexhausted, unwasted, exhaustless, inexhaustible, Adv, sufficiently, amply.

N sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal, satisfaction, competence, no less, quantum sufficit, Q, S, mediocrity, fill, fullness, plenitude, plenty, abundance, copiousness, amplitude, galore, lots, profusion, full measure, good measure pressed down and running, over, luxuriance, affluence, fat of the land, a land flowing with milk and honey, cornucopia, horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea, mine, outpouring, flood, tide, repletion, satiety, sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible, measured, moderate, full, ample, plenty, plentiful, plenteous, plenty as blackberries, copious, abundant, abounding, replete, enough and to spare, flush, choke-full, chock-full, well-stocked, well- provided, liberal, unstinted, unstinting, stintless, without stint, unsparing, unmeasured, lavish, wholesale, rich, luxuriant, affluent, wantless, big with, unexhausted, unwasted, exhaustless, inexhaustible, sufficiently, amply Adj, full, in abundance, with no sparing hand, to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint, cut and come again, das Beste ist gut genug.

Wealth

N wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence, affluence, good circumstances, easy circumstances, independence, competence, solvency, provision, livelihood, maintenance, alimony, dowry, means, resources, substance, property, command of money, income, capital, money, round sum, mint of money, mine of wealth, El Dorado, bonanza, Pacatolus, Golconda, Potosi, long purse, full purse, well lined purse, heavy purse, deep pockets, purse of Fortunatus, embarras de richesses, pelf, Mammon, lucre, filthy lucre, loaves and fishes, rich man, moneyed man, warm man, man of substance, capitalist, millionaire, tippybob, Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens, Timocracy, Plutocracy, Danae, wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, moneyed, monied, worth much, well to do, well off, warm, comfortable, well, well provided for, made of money, rich as Croesus, filthy rich, rich as a Jew, rolling in riches, rolling in wealth, flush, flush of cash, flush of money, flush of tin, in funds, in cash, in full feather, solvent, pecunious, out of debt, in the black, all straight, one's ship coming in, amour fait beaucoup mais argent fait tout, love does much but money does everything, aurea rumpunt tecta quietem, magna servitus ist magna fortuna, mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from Heaven, opum furiata cupido, vera prosperita e non aver necessita, wie gewonnen so zerronnen.

Approach

N approach, approximation, appropinquation, access, appulse, afflux, affluxion, advent, pursuit, approaching, approximative, affluent, impending, imminent, on the road, Int, come hither!, approach!, here!, come!, come near!, forward!.

River

N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.


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