filthy rich

Examples

• All

• If it's not our destiny to sell the pieces and become filthy rich, what is?

  The Profane Exhibit (2013)

• And the government ministers are also getting filthy rich (on a minister's salary?).

  Blog text (14)

• You must be filthy rich.

  Attack of the Sabretooth (2005)

• I married this beautiful lady who just by chance happened to be filthy rich.

  Grizzly (1976)

• See, people work here to become filthy rich.

  Fiction book (2000)

• - You're going to be filthy rich.

  Lovelace (2013)

• They better be rich, and I mean filthy rich.

  The Thief Lord (2006)

• Look, anyway, they're filthy rich, OK?

  Crocodile 2: Death Roll (2002)

• I've heard she doesn't look like much, but she is filthy rich.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Well, the reward will be very large and pecuniary, and, er, Catalina's father's filthy rich, he's rolling in it.

  Cat Run (2011)

Synonyms

R

rich

vsfilthy rich

∞ 1.0

Having a lot of money and valuable things

is stronger and suggests showy excess beyond simple abundance

W

wealthy

vsfilthy rich

520 2.5

Having a lot of money and many expensive things

is more extreme and often implies conspicuous or excessive richness

A

affluent

vsfilthy rich

67 5.5

Having a lot of money and possessions

is more informal and carries stronger sense of excess or conspicuousness

M

moneyed

vsfilthy rich

• Formal

7 5.7

Having a lot of money

is more vivid and implies excessive or showy accumulation of money

R

rolling in it

vsfilthy rich

• UK

3 7.4

Has a lot of money and can buy many things

is more negative and emphasises excess and showy spending

S

super-rich

vsfilthy rich

1 3.4

Having far more money than most people

stresses a conspicuous or excessive abundance rather than mere size

S

super-wealthy

vsfilthy rich

1 4.1

Having much more money than most people

emphasizes showy or excessive wealth rather than just very large sums

U

ultra-wealthy

vsfilthy rich

4.2

Having much more money than most people

often adds a sense of conspicuous excess beyond mere vast holdings

O

oofy

vsfilthy rich

• Slang

9.9

Having a lot of money and showing it with expensive clothes or cars

is stronger and more extreme with a sense of conspicuous excess

O

overrich

vsfilthy rich

6.5

Having too much fat, sugar or a strong smell that makes it unpleasant

describes extreme personal money or asset abundance that is conspicuous rather than unpleasant

Antonyms

P

poor

∞ 1.0

Having little money or possessions

I

impoverished

50 6.2

People or places that have very little money and few things they need

How Wealthy

filthy rich

• Informal

14 4.4

affluent

1 6.0

rich

∞ 1.0

well-off

33 3.4

comfortable

107 2.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology