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Richer vs Wealthier - What's the difference?

richer | wealthier |

As adjectives the difference between richer and wealthier

is that richer is (rich) while wealthier is (wealthy).

richer

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (rich).
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
  • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

    wealthier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (wealthy)

  • wealthy

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Possessing financial wealth; rich.
  • Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.
  • Synonyms

    * affluent, prosperous * See also

    Antonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * independently wealthy

    See also

    * upscale

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable, preceded by the)   Rich people.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
  • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}
  • (countable)   A rich person.
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