Word Finder - richer

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Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

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Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.

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a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry

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Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.

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a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop

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Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.

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rich soil or land; a rich mine

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Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.

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a rich endowment; a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents

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Not faint or delicate; vivid.

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a rich red colour

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Very amusing.

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The scene was a rich one.

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Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous.

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Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.

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Of a fuel-air mixture, having less air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.

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Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

So the poor will get richer, and the rich will get vastly richer.

She knew very little of Hannah's friends, except they were all richer than sin.

More questionable was Josephs policy in closing and confiscating the property of 213 of the richer monasteries of the land.

The South American sub-region is perhaps richer in peculiar and distinctive types than either of the preceding.

Polygamy is almost confined to the richer classes.

After an interval the polarization begins to be incomplete in the perpendicular direction, the light which reaches the eye when the nicol is set to minimum transmission being of a beautiful blue, much richer than anything that can be seen in the earlier stages.

Owing to the meagreness of their food these animals are usually thin and small, but are quickly restored when placed on richer grounds.

The Spanish wood has a darker colour and richer figure than the Honduras, and is therefore preferred for ornamental j oinery work.

Herbert was that " ships, be sides the transporting of richer varieties from place to place, consociate the most remote regions of the earth by participation of commodities and other excellencies to each other."

Chemical analysis, like common experience, shows that Indian corn is a very nutritious article of food, being richer in albuminoids than any other cereals when ripe (calculated in the dry weight).

When maize is sown broadcast or closely planted in drills the ears may not develop at all, but the stalk is richer in sugar and sweeter; and this is the basis of growing " corn-fodder."

To the west and north the plateau sinks in terraces to the plains of the Sudan, and eastward falls more abruptly to the Red Sea, the coast plain, known as the Samhar, consisting of sandy country covered with mimosa and, along the khors, with a somewhat richer vegetation.

Wilmot's Monomotapa (London, 1896), which is, however, to a large extent superseded by 'Meal's far richer collection of material.

The southernmost portion of Bundelkhand is much cut up by spurs of sandstone and granite hills, running down from the Vindhyan system; but the northern half near the Jumna has a somewhat richer soil, and comes nearer in character to the plain of Doab.

The consideration that mere double negation leaves us precisely where we were and not upon a higher plane where the dominant concept is richer, is, of course, fatal only to certain verbal expressions of Hegel's intent.

Many even of the richer towns, notably Nuremberg, ran into debt irretrievably, owing partly to an exorbitant expenditure on magnificent public buildings and extensive fortifications, calculated to resist modern instruments of destruction, partly to a faulty administration.

The new town is the richer portion.

The northern slopes of the Alai chain are richer in trees.

But the big question is whether these same economics would apply in a world one hundred times richer than we are right now.

These jobs can be market jobs that have the potential to make a person vastly richer, creating more and more wealth on the planet.

As the world grows richer, people will care more about how their food is made, how the animals are treated, whether the laborer who picked the food is paid a living wage.

And when the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him.

With a little more wit we might use these materials so as to become richer than the richest now are, and make our civilization a blessing.

Something always drew him toward those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people.

Or, they both think our friend here and his buddies the Wassermann twins are all a few bucks richer!

The light scattered from small particles is of a much richer blue than the blue of the first order as reflected from a very thin plate.

In general the richer western part is devoted to crops, and the eastern part to raising live-stock.

The eastern parts of Australia are very much richer both in their botany and in their zoology than any of the other parts.

Its arboreal vegetation is richer both in genera and species than that corresponding to it in the Old World.

It is even richer in more herbaceous plants tolerant of a hot summer; giant Umbelliferae (such as Ferula) are especially characteristic and yield gum-resins which have long been reckoned valuable.

The South African sub-region has a flora richer perhaps in number of species than any other; and these are often extremely local ant restricted in area.

Queen Elizabeth continued his employment in diplomacy, and had he been richer he might have had an earldom.

It was larger and probably richer than - for example ' Silchester.

The urban population, divided into two categories according to their taxable wealth, elects delegates direct to the college of the government (Guberniya), and is thus represented in the second degree; but the system of division into categories, according not to the number of taxpayers but to the amount they pay, gives a great preponderance to the richer classes.

The Tonopah ores were richer in silver than in gold, the respective values in 1904 and 1905 being approximately in the proportion of three to one.

It seems obvious that the lighter and poorer soils would benefit more than the heavier or richer soils by the extended growth of leguminous crops.

The fauna, explored by Dybowski and Godlewski, and in 1900-2 by Korotnev, is much richer than it was supposed to be, and has quite an original character; but hypotheses as to a direct communication having existed between Lake Baikal and the Arctic Ocean during the Post-Tertiary or Tertiary ages are not proved.

Humanity is the richer for the memory of those millions of men, who followed the pillar of cloud and fire in the sure and certain hope of an eternal reward.

In the richer soil they cut deep channels; the denudation thus caused threatens to diminish seriously the area of arable and pasture land.

Minerals, in which Oberhessen is much richer than the two other provinces, include iron, manganese, salt and some coal.

These, in the case of the king, would be of richer material, colour and adornment.

The houses of the richer classes are regularly built about an interior court.

Many of the richer deposits have never been developed because of a lack of fuel and limestone.

The ancient royal tenants became the feudatories of the great nobles, and fell naturally into two classes, the nobiles bene possessionati, and the nobiles unius sessionis, in other words the richer and the poorer gentry.

In royal Hungary the same object was aimed at by innumerable indictments against the richer landowners, indictments supported by false title-deeds and carried through by forged or purchased judgments of the courts.

At Reims he seems to have studied and lectured for many years, having amongst his pupils Hugh Capet's son Robert, afterwards king of France, and Richer, to whose history we owe almost every detail of his master's early life.

The emperor, to whom Gerbert was well known, appointed a time for the two philosophers to argue before him; and Richer has left a long account of this dialectical tournament at Ravenna, which lasted out a whole day and was only terminated at the imperial bidding.

His pupil Richer has left us a detailed account of his system of teaching at Reims. So far as the trivium is concerned, his text-books were Victorinus's translation of Porphyry's Isagoge, Aristotle's Categories, and Cicero's Topics with Manlius's Commentaries.

If the workable areas are poor, and appear only at long intervals along the outcrop, the chances of discovering richer areas by a shaft are very small.

When wheat, barley, turnips and similar plants are grown, the soil upon which they are cultivated becomes depleted of its nitrogen; yet after a crop of clover or other leguminous plants the soil is found to be richer in nitrogen than it was before the crop was grown.