Well-heeled

Quick meaning: Well-heeled is an adjective meaning (colloquial) Affluent, prosperous, or even (of the highest degree) rich.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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.

Synonyms for well-heeled

Depending on context, synonyms include comfortable, well-endowed, wealthy, loaded, minted, moneyed.

Antonyms for well-heeled

Common opposites include almsless, arm, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include well-to-do, rich, prosperous, well-fixed, comfortable, easy.

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