different between rich vs abundant

English

Etymology

From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English r??e (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *r?k?, from from Proto-Germanic *r?kijaz (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Celtic *r?xs (“king”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?re?- (“to straighten, direct, make right”).

Cognate with Scots rik (“mighty, great, noble, rich”), Saterland Frisian riek (“rich”), West Frisian ryk (“rich”), Dutch rijk (“rich”), German reich (“rich”), Danish rig (“rich”), Icelandic ríkur (“rich”), Norwegian and Swedish rik (“rich”). The Middle English word was reinforced by Old French riche, borrowed from the same Proto-Germanic root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t??/
• Hyphenation: rich
• Rhymes: -?t?

Adjective

rich (comparative richer, superlative richest)

1. Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
2. Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 116):

     It is the richest food I have ever eaten, and for this reason I soon learned to partake of it sparingly.

   • 1709-1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning

     High sauces and rich spices are fetch'd from the Indies.

3. Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
   • 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert

     Tho' my Date of mortal Life be short, it shall be glorious; / Each minute shall be rich in some great action.
4. Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.

5. Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
6. Not faint or delicate; vivid.

7. (informal) Very amusing.

8. (informal) Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.
   • 1858, William Brown (of Montreal), The Commercial Crisis: Its Cause and Cure (page 28)

     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?
9. (computing) Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
   • 2003, Patricia Cardoza, Patricia DiGiacomo, Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

     Some rich text email messages contain formatting information that's best viewed with Microsoft Word.

   • 2008, Aaron Newman, Adam Steinberg, Jeremy Thomas, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation

     But what did matter was that the new web platform provided a rich experience.

10. Of a fuel-air mixture, having less air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
11. (finance) Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

Noun

rich pl (plural only)

1. (Plural) People with a lot of money or property

Synonyms

• (wealthy): wealthy, well off, see also Thesaurus:wealthy

Antonyms

• (wealthy): poor; see also Thesaurus:impoverished
• (plentiful): needy
• (computing): plain, unformatted, vanilla
• (fuel-air mixture): lean
• (financial markets): cheap

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

rich (third-person singular simple present riches, present participle riching, simple past and past participle riched)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To enrich.

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2. (obsolete, intransitive) To become rich.

References

• rich at OneLook Dictionary Search
• rich in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• chir-

English

Alternative forms

• aboundant, abundaunt, habundaunt, habundant (obsolete)

Etymology

First attested about 1380. From Middle English abundaunt, habundaunt, aboundant, from Anglo-Norman abundant, from Old French abondant, from Latin abund?ns, present participle of abundo (“to overflow, to abound”). Compare abound.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b?n.dn?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??b?n.dn?t/, /??bn?.dn?t/

Adjective

abundant (comparative more abundant, superlative most abundant)

1. Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
   • a. 1859, Leigh Hunt, On the Realities of Imagination

     [W]ith their magical words they [poets] bring forth to our eyesight the abundant images and beauties of creation.

   Antonyms: rare, scarce

2. Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
3. (mathematics) Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]

   Antonym: deficient

Usage notes

• (richly supplied): Normally followed by the word in or (obsolete) of.

Synonyms

• ample (see here for explanation of distinctions)
• bountiful
• copious
• exuberant
• liberal
• overflowing
• plenteous
• plentiful
• profuse
• rich
• teeming
• See also Thesaurus:abundant

Derived terms

Related terms

• abound

Translations

References

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin abundans.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?.bun?dant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?.bun?dan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.bun?dant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

abundant (masculine and feminine plural abundants)

1. abundant; plentiful

Derived terms

• abundantment

Related terms

• abundància
• abundar

Further reading

• “abundant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• abondant

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French abundant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.b?n?d?nt/
• Hyphenation: abun?dant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Adjective

abundant (comparative abundanter, superlative abundantst)

1. abundant

Inflection

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab?n?dant/

Adjective

abundant (comparative abundanter, superlative am abundantsten)

1. abundant

Declension

Latin

Verb

abundant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of abund?

Old French

Verb

abundant

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of abondant