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.

Adjective

(er)

Having a large physical extent from side to side.

Large in scope.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders

, title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}

(sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.

On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.

* Spenser

Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand.

* Massinger

I was but two bows wide .

(phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.

Remote; distant; far.

* Hammond

the contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God

(obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.

* Milton

our wide expositors

* Latimer

It is far wide that the people have such judgments.

* Herbert

How wide is all this long pretence!

(computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional representation.

a wide''' character; a '''wide stream