Well-to-do

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /ËŒwÉ›ltəˈdu/

Full definition of well-to-do

Noun

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, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 22, 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.

Adjective

1. Rich; prosperous.

Synonyms

• affluent
• flush
• loaded
• wealthy
• well-fixed
• well-heeled
• well-off
• well-situated