well-to-do

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌwɛltəˈdu/

well-to-do (comparative more well-to-do, superlative most well-to-do)

1. Rich; prosperous.

• affluent
• flush
• loaded
• wealthy
• well-fixed
• well-heeled
• well-off
• well-situated
• See also Thesaurus:wealthy

well-to-do pl (plural only)

1. People who are comparatively well off.

   Some philosophers aver that the well-to-do should be taxed at a higher rate than poorer people.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.