Well-heeled

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(colloquial) Affluent, prosperous, or even (of the highest degree) rich..

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: well-endowed, wealthy; see also Thesaurus:wealthy

But their number had fallen off since the militants and the riots and it was mostly well-heeled blacks who got out of cabs and expensive cars tonight in front of the canopied entrance.

On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.

The world changes, consumerism marches on, and things once considered luxuries for the well-heeled are now taken for granted by us all — homes with 2½ bathrooms, air travel, cars with power windows.

These public artworks only arrived a few weeks ago, Winterson explains, as part of a grand plan to pedestrianise the area, and make it more buzzy, just at the moment that the sort of well-heeled office workers who bought upmarket chocolates are abandoning it owing to the Covid pandemic.

Mum had worked there as a teenager and once recalled her duty of having to meet the charabancs that brought the well-heeled to the baths from Droitwich station before the war.

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Word Forms

• more well-heeled
• most well-heeled

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