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Wealthy vs Luscious - What's the difference?

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Wealthy is a related term of luscious.


As adjectives the difference between wealthy and luscious

is that wealthy is possessing financial wealth; rich while luscious is sweet and pleasant; delicious.

As a noun wealthy

is (uncountable|preceded by the)   rich people.

wealthy

English

(wikipedia 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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    • Related terms

    * wealth * wealthily * wealthiness

    luscious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • sweet and pleasant; delicious
  • * 1863 , H.S. Thompson, Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden
    • Her lips were like two luscious beefsteaks
  • * 1900 , L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
    • There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.
  • sexually appealing; seductive
  • * 1749 , John Cleland, Memoirs of Fanny Hill: A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text
    • With one hand he gently disclosed the lips of that luscious mouth of nature
  • obscene
  • * 1749 , John Cleland, Memoirs of Fanny Hill: A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text
    • Hitherto I had been indebted only to the girls of the house for the corruption of my innocence: their luscious talk, in which modesty was far from respected