filthy rich
Swimming in money
Filthy rich means extremely wealthy, with *filthy* intensifying the wealth to an almost obscene degree.
The phrase suggests money in such excess that it's almost distasteful: Her family is filthy rich—they own half the county.
Sometimes shortened to just *filthy*: He's absolutely filthy.
Person worth ten figures
- multimillionaireOne possessing multiple millions
- millionairePerson possessing great wealth
- affluentHaving abundant financial resources
- wealthyHaving abundant financial resources
moneybags · deep pockets · fortune · prosperity · plutocrat · oligarch · capitalist · inheritance
Dominant industrial leader
- magnateWealthy business leader
- baronLow-ranking peer
- mogulInfluential industry leader
- kingpinCriminal organization's leader
CEO · executive · industrialist · titan · empire · influence · dominance · control
Rule by hereditary elite
- nobilityTitled ruling class
- bluebloodPerson of noble birth
- patricianHighborn Roman elite
- jet-setterWealthy frequent traveler
gentry · peerage · dynasty · heir · heiress · old money · trust fund · pedigree
Excessive, wasteful spending
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
- ostentationVulgar flaunting of means
profligacy · overindulgence · squander · wastefulness · materialism · consumerism · gaudiness · showiness
Persistent bitter displeasure
- jealousyResentful desire for another's advantages
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- begrudgeEnvy or give unwillingly
- longingIntense, persistent desire
bitterness · discontent · spite · comparison · keeping up with the Joneses · have-nots · inequality · disparity
billionaire
Person worth ten figures
- multimillionaireOne possessing multiple millions
- millionairePerson possessing great wealth
- affluentHaving abundant financial resources
wealthy · moneybags · deep pockets · fortune · prosperity · plutocrat · oligarch · capitalist · inheritance · windfall
tycoon
Dominant industrial leader
kingpin · CEO · executive · industrialist · titan · empire · influence · dominance · control · patriarch
aristocracy
Rule by hereditary elite
jet-setter · gentry · peerage · dynasty · heir · heiress · old money · trust fund · pedigree · upper crust
extravagance
Excessive, wasteful spending
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
ostentation · profligacy · overindulgence · squander · wastefulness · materialism · consumerism · gaudiness · showiness · vulgarity
resentment
Persistent bitter displeasure
- jealousyResentful desire for another's advantages
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- begrudgeEnvy or give unwillingly
longing · bitterness · discontent · spite · comparison · keeping up with the Joneses · have-nots · inequality · disparity · class divide
- wealthriches, wealth, fortune, affluence, prosperity
- wealth statuspoor, wealthy, affluent, middle-class, upper class
- money idiomsarm and a leg, break the bank, penny pincher, cheapskate, tightwad
- greedgreed, avarice, covetousness, cupidity, materialism
- intensifiersvery, really, extremely, absolutely, incredibly
- money slangbucks, dough, moolah, cheddar, cash
filthy richdirt poor
Extremely lacking in money
destitute · impoverished · penniless · broke · poverty-stricken
filthy richlower class
Lowest socioeconomic stratum
underclass · working poor · dispossessed · disadvantaged · underprivileged
rich, filthy, defile, filthiness, filthier, defiled, filthiest, refile, refiling