ultrawealthy

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adjective

Extremely wealthy.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiveultrawealthy (comparative more ultrawealthy, superlative most ultrawealthy)

comparative more ultrawealthy · superlative most ultrawealthy · alternative ultra-wealthy

  1. Extremely wealthy.

    Reid Hoffman[…] says that some ultrawealthy individuals have a tendency to be “in broadcast mode,” as he describes it […]

    2022 April 6, Michael Steinberger, “How the ‘Homeless Billionaire’ Became a Philosopher King”, in The New York Times Magazine, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2022
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    The rising wealth of the nation’s richest taxpayers will most likely intensify debate among tax and policy analysts about the equitability of the tax code, which analysts say favors the ultrawealthy.

    2009 January 30, Lynnley Browning, “A Rich Income in ’06 Was $263 Million”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  2. Latinūls
  3. Latinultrā
  4. Englishultra-
  5. Englishwealthy
  6. Englishultrawealthy

From ultra- + wealthy.

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APA

ultrawealthy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ultrawealthy

MLA

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Chicago

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