Adjective

(en adjective)

Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.

Similarly producing results or works in abundance

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Dominic Fifield , title=England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=The most obvious beneficiary of the visitors' superiority was Frank Lampard. By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals. No other player has managed more than the Chelsea midfielder's 11 in World Cup qualification ties, with this a display to roll back the years.}}

Adjective

(er)

Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

*, chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17, author=(George Monbiot)

, volume=188, issue=23, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Money just makes the rich suffer , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]}}

Having a fatty, intense flavour.

a rich''' dish; '''rich''' cream or soup; '''rich pastry

* Baker

Sauces and rich spices are fetched from India.

Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.

a rich''' treasury; a '''rich''' entertainment; a '''rich crop

* Rowe

If life be short, it shall be glorious; / Each minute shall be rich in some great action.

* Milton

The gorgeous East with richest hand / Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-27, volume=408, issue=8846, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Battle of the bulge , passage=For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions. Mexicans quaff more fizzy drinks than any other country; Peru has the highest density of fast-food joints in the world.}}

Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.

rich''' soil or land; a '''rich mine

Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.

a rich''' dress; '''rich''' silk or fur; '''rich presents

* Milton

rich and various gems

Not faint or delicate; vivid.

a rich red colour

(informal, dated) Very amusing.

The scene was a rich one.

a rich incident or character

(Thackeray)

(informal) Ridiculous, absurd.

(computing) Elaborate]], having complex [[format, formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.

* 2002 , David Austerberry, The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming

A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages.

* 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.

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.