What's the difference between affluent and wealthy?

Affluent


Definition:

  • (a.) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
  • (a.) Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches.
  • (n.) A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have the nuclear-related wealth, which captures the highly skilled and the affluent and the upwardly mobile.
  • (2) "I serve a fairly affluent part of a fairly affluent city in a fairly affluent part of the country.
  • (3) Namely: it takes one small, heavily publicised niche – affluent, usually white LGBTs – and presents them as representative of a whole spectrum of people.
  • (4) Cape Town was conceived with a white-only centre, surrounded by contained settlements for the black and coloured labour forces to the east, each hemmed in by highways and rail lines, rivers and valleys, and separated from the affluent white suburbs by protective buffer zones of scrubland,” he says.
  • (5) The company’s success reflects affluent shoppers’ willingness to pay extra for products perceived to be of high quality, made with premium ingredients.
  • (6) His body was found on the pavement of Portman Avenue, in East Sheen, an affluent west London suburb, shortly before 7.45am on 9 September last year, just after flight BA76 from Luanda, the Angolan capital, passed overhead.
  • (7) For the first time even the relatively affluent will approach old age still straddled with mortgages, and still financially supporting adult children through paying for their education and housing.
  • (8) This was based on Liebig's idea that protein was the source of muscular energy and the observation that protein consumption was higher in the more successful (i.e., affluent) social groups or nations than elsewhere.
  • (9) Many people are becoming more affluent, educated and demanding.
  • (10) Together with the caloric overloading, provoked also by the excess in fat, characteristic for the affluent society, the excessive sugar consumption enhances in the pregnant women obesity and "protodiabetes" (PFEIFFER), in the predisposed child the tendency to hyperinsulinism with its consequences.
  • (11) What worries me particularly is the capacity for very affluent people to navigate their way through urban space in ways that mean they don't even have to be confronted by any forms of poverty."
  • (12) But she raised concerns that parents' fears over costs betray a lack of understanding of grants and loans available to students from less affluent homes, suggesting more should be done to explain all the options.
  • (13) We tend to live in the cheaper parts of the city, so we're less affected than those in the more affluent boroughs.
  • (14) Earlier this month residents in Broughton, an affluent village in Buckinghamshire, formed a human chain to block a Google car, with a tripod-mounted camera on its roof.
  • (15) As women move from poor rural cultures to more affluent urban ones, cultural and religious objections to permanent family planning disappear under the pressures of greater child survival and more hope for self- (and child) improvement.
  • (16) I am grateful that my body will split in half in late summer, and I will probably live through it, being a resident of the affluent west, but the gratitude is ambivalent.
  • (17) The social tariff, long-demanded by fuel poverty campaigners, is controversial as power companies say it will have to be funded by more affluent families paying more.
  • (18) Another member of her circle, the rapacious slum landlord Peter Rachman, had himself become a symbol of the greed and materialism of the affluent society, adding more spice to the mix.
  • (19) Weakness in crucial types of constituencies in 2016, such as unpretentious Midlands towns (Nuneaton, Cannock) and big city suburbs (Bury, Bolton) is ominous, while stronger showings were in affluent seats that are either already Labour or require large swings to be sustained through to May 2020,” Baston said.
  • (20) Whiting is also keen to level the playing field between poorer districts, like Thanet (the most deprived in Kent), and affluent areas with "superselective" schools, like Judd in Tonbridge, where pupils needed 140 marks out of 142 for a place last year.

Wealthy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich.
  • (superl.) Hence, ample; full; satisfactory; abundant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
  • (2) Private equity millionaires, wealthy hedge fund managers, some of the most successful bankers in financial history – they crowded into Cavendish’s Georgian offices.
  • (3) Co-founder Cyndi Anafo’s mother used to run a Ghanaian grocery in the covered market that has recently been rebranded Brixton Village, a target destination for food tourists and wealthy Londoners.
  • (4) Arvind Kejriwal, leader of a new populist political party "dedicated to improving the lot of the common man", announced on Monday that he would form a government to run the sprawling, troubled and increasingly wealthy city of 15 million people.
  • (5) The party has also pledged to ensure that the wealthy make a greater contribution by restoring the 50p higher rate of income tax.
  • (6) France is discovering that, when it comes to wealthy taxpayers, you win some – and you lose some.
  • (7) Joan Condijts, editor in chief of L'Echo, said the investment climate and employment opportunities in Belgium were attracting wealthy French.
  • (8) As the historian of neoliberalism Philip Mirowski argues , what the past 30 years have been about is using the powers of the state to divert more resources to the wealthy.
  • (9) Water supplies are restricted to the wealthy few, and landmark buildings such as the presidential palace remain wrecked nine years after the end of the war.
  • (10) While Bloomberg has defended his record, pointing out that New York city has 22 of the state's best 25 public schools, others have said those schools are predominantly in wealthy neighbourhoods or are difficult for students to get into.
  • (11) If Davos is a closed shop for the wealthy and powerful elites who caused today’s global inequality, it won’t come up with the answers needed for a more fair and prosperous future for all the world’s workers and their families.
  • (12) Some Coalition MPs raised concerns earlier this year that transparency could expose wealthy business owners to security risks, including kidnapping , and the government prepared legislation to shield private Australian companies.
  • (13) And indeed, Tony Abbott’s new pension plan, to save $2.4bn over two years and an undisclosed sum beyond that by reversing a Howard government decision that allowed quite wealthy retirees to claim a part-pension, is much fairer than last year’s plan to erode the value of all pensions over time.
  • (14) He stressed that the sister-in-law and her husband were not only accused of circulating libellously untrue stories but also of harassment of the wealthy financier.
  • (15) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
  • (16) The code "favours profits and the wealthy", she said.
  • (17) Peering out from his Kremlin perch, Putin sees a European continent divided between wealthy and poor countries, between north and south, and senses an opportunity.
  • (18) He said: “I think you’ve seen from Chinese investors – wealthy individuals in football clubs is something that will continue.
  • (19) One, known as the Institute for Philanthropy , runs classes for wealthy individuals, which it describes as an 'MBA' in philanthropy.
  • (20) That's what CDC has to do if it is going to justify its investments in houses and shops for the mega-wealthy, and it won't be easy.