affluent

Meanings

Noun

• Somebody who is wealthy.
• A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.

Adjective

• Abundant; copious; plenteous.
• Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth.
• Tributary.
• Flowing to; flowing abundantly.

Related

Opposite words

• indigent

Origin

• Middle French affluent, from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō, from ad + fluō (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also led to nominalization affluence.