well-heeled

comparative more well-heeled · superlative most well-heeled

1. colloquialAffluent, prosperous, or even (of the highest degree) rich.

   Near-synonyms: well-endowed, wealthy; see also Thesaurus:wealthy

   5 more examples

   But their number had fallen off since the militants and the riots and it was mostly well-heeled blacks who got out of cabs and expensive cars tonight in front of the canopied entrance.

   1970, Wally Ferris, Across 110th, page 58

   On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.

   2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4

   The world changes, consumerism marches on, and things once considered luxuries for the well-heeled are now taken for granted by us all — homes with 2½ bathrooms, air travel, cars with power windows.

   2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post

   These public artworks only arrived a few weeks ago, Winterson explains, as part of a grand plan to pedestrianise the area, and make it more buzzy, just at the moment that the sort of well-heeled office workers who bought upmarket chocolates are abandoning it owing to the Covid pandemic.

   2021 July 25, Claire Armitstead, “Jeanette Winterson: ‘The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space’”, in The Guardian

   Mum had worked there as a teenager and once recalled her duty of having to meet the charabancs that brought the well-heeled to the baths from Droitwich station before the war.

   2023 February 22, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 977, page 71

   Synonyms: well off, comfortably off, comfortable, well-endowed, wealthy, bow-legged wi' brass, comfortably off, filthy rich · Antonyms: badly off, ill off, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly