Affluent

English

Noun

Affluent (plural Affluents)

1. Somebody who is wealthy.
2. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.

Adjective

Affluent (comparative more Affluent, superlative most Affluent)

1. Abundant; copious; plenteous.
2. (by extension) Abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy.

Adverbs for Affluent

gorgeously; enormously; comfortably; fortunately; pleasantly; agreeably; serenely; snugly; enviably; complacently; sufficiently; smugly; graciously.

Synonyms for Affluent

wealthy, opulent, rich, abounding, plenteous

Antonyms for Affluent

poor, destitute, impecunious, penniless, needy.

Thesaurus

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

Etymology

Middle French affluent, from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō (“flow to or towards; overflow with”), from ad (“to, towards”) + fluō (“flow”) (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also lead to nominalization affluence.

Only relation to antonym indigent is common Latinate suffix .

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈæf.lu.ənt/, SAMPA: /"{f.lu.@nt/
• (US) enPR: ăfʹlu-ənt, IPA: /ˈæf.lu.ənt/, SAMPA: /"{f.lu.@nt/