affluent

affluent
    adj 1: having an abundant supply of money or possessions of
           value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with
           cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed
           aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations" [syn: {affluent},
           {flush}, {loaded}, {moneyed}, {wealthy}]
    n 1: an affluent person; a person who is financially well off;
         "the so-called emerging affluents"
    2: a branch that flows into the main stream [syn: {feeder},
       {tributary}, {confluent}, {affluent}] [ant: {distributary}]
    

Affluent \Af"flu*ent\, a. [Cf. F. affluent, L. affluens, -entis,
   p. pr. See {Affluence}.]
   1. Flowing to; flowing abundantly. "Affluent blood."
      --Harvey.
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   2. Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in
      goods or riches.
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            Language . . . affluent in expression. --H. Reed.
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            Loaded and blest with all the affluent store,
            Which human vows at smoking shrines implore.
                                                  --Prior.
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Affluent \Af"flu*ent\, n.
   A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake;
   a tributary stream.
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118 Moby Thesaurus words for "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