Wealthy vs Fortunate - What's the difference?
wealthy | fortunate |
Possessing financial wealth; rich.
Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.
(uncountable, preceded by the) Rich people.
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, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
, volume=188, issue=23, page=19
, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
(countable) A rich person.
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Coming by good luck or favorable chance.
Bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain.
Presaging happiness.
Auspicious.
Receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts.
Lucky, favored by fortune.
As adjectives the difference between wealthy and fortunate
is that wealthy is possessing financial wealth; rich while fortunate is coming by good luck or favorable chance.As a noun wealthy
is (uncountable|preceded by the) rich people.wealthy
English
(wikipedia wealthy)Adjective
(en-adj)Synonyms
* affluent, prosperous * See alsoAntonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* independently wealthySee also
* upscaleNoun
(en-noun)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.}}
fortunate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a fortunate event
- a fortunate concurrence of circumstances
- a fortunate investment