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Affluent vs Lucky - What's the difference?

affluent | lucky |

As adjectives the difference between affluent and lucky

is that affluent is abundant; copious; plenteous while lucky is favoured by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune said of persons.

As a noun affluent

is somebody who is wealthy.

affluent

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rft-sense) Somebody who is wealthy.
  • * 1994 , Philip D. Cooper, Health care marketing: a foundation for managed quality (page 183)
    • The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.
  • A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Abundant; copious; plenteous.
  • * H. Reed
    • languageaffluent in expression
  • (label) Abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Michael Sivak
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply? , passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent , with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.}}
  • (label) Tributary.
  • (label) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
  • * Harvey
    • affluent blood

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    Derived terms

    * affluence * affluently

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    lucky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Favoured by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune. Said of persons.
    • a lucky adventurer
    The downed pilot is very lucky to be alive.
  • Producing, or resulting in, good chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate.
    • a lucky mistake
    a lucky cast
    a lucky hour

    Quotations

    * 1989 , Howard Ashman, “Under the Sea”, The Little Mermaid , Walt Disney Feature Animation *: They sad ’cause they in their bowl / But fish in the bowl is lucky / They in for a worser fate

    Synonyms

    * (favored by luck ): fortunate, successful * (producing or resulting in good chance ): auspicious, favorable/favourable, fortunate, fortuitous

    Derived terms

    * get lucky * lucky dip * lucky you * should be so lucky