Antonyms for affluent
ˈæf lu ənt or, sometimes, əˈflu-af·flu·ent

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 4 votes

1. affluent

   Enough is relative, denoting a supply equal to a given demand. A temperature of 70° Fahrenheit is enough for a living-room; of 212° enough to boil water; neither is enough to melt iron. Sufficient, from the Latin, is an equivalent of the Saxon enough, with no perceptible difference of meaning, but only of usage, enough being the more blunt, homely, and forcible word, while sufficient is in many cases the more elegant or polite. Sufficient usually precedes its noun; enough usually and preferably follows. That is ample which gives a safe, but not a large, margin beyond a given demand; that is abundant, affluent, bountiful, liberal, plentiful, which is largely in excess of manifest need. Plentiful is used of supplies, as of food, water, etc.; as, "a plentiful rain," Ps. lxviii, 9. We may also say a copious rain; but copious can be applied to thought, language, etc., where plentiful can not well be used. Affluent and liberal both apply to riches, resources; liberal, with especial reference to giving or expending. (Compare synonyms for ADEQUATE.) Affluent, referring especially to riches, may be used of thought, feeling, etc. Neither affluent, copious, nor plentiful can be used of time or space; a field is sometimes called plentiful, not with reference to its extent, but to its productiveness. Complete expresses not excess or overplus, and yet not mere sufficiency, but harmony, proportion, fitness to a design, or ideal. Ample and abundant may be applied to any subject. We have time enough, means that we can reach our destination without haste, but also without delay; if we have ample time, we may move leisurely, and note what is by the way; if we have abundant time, we may pause to converse with a friend, to view the scenery, or to rest when weary. Lavish and profuse imply a decided excess, oftenest in the ill sense. We rejoice in abundant resources, and honor generous hospitality; lavish or profuse expenditure suggests extravagance and wastefulness. Luxuriant is used especially of that which is abundant in growth; as, a luxuriant crop.

   Antonyms:
   deficient, drained, exhausted, impoverished, inadequate, insufficient, mean, miserly, narrow, niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimped, short, small, sparing, stingy, straitened

   Synonyms:
   abounding, abundant, adequate, ample, bounteous, bountiful, complete, copious, enough, exuberant, full, generous, large, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, replete, rich, sufficient, teeming

   Preposition:
   Plentiful in resources.

Matched Categories

1. • Rich Person

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. affluentnoun

   an affluent person; a person who is financially well off

   "the so-called emerging affluents"

   Antonyms:
   poor

   Synonyms:
   tributary, confluent, feeder

2. feeder, tributary, confluent, affluentadjective

   a branch that flows into the main stream

   Antonyms:
   poor

   Synonyms:
   tributary, eater, confluent, feeder, bird feeder, self-feeder, birdfeeder

3. affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthyadjective

   having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

   "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations"

   Antonyms:
   poor

   Synonyms:
   wet, squiffy, crocked, fuddled, tight, flush(p), wealthy, plastered, smashed, ladened, soused, cockeyed, loaded, monied, soaked, moneyed, stiff, besotted, laden, slopped, pie-eyed, blotto, pissed, blind drunk, sloshed, sozzled, flush, pixilated

How to use affluent in a sentence?

1. Dan Kildee:

   It's hard for me to imagine the indifference that we've seen exhibited if this had happened in a much more affluent community.

2. Sunil Joyia:

   Magnanimity does not make you affluent but it buy you gems a affluent can't..

3. Di Salvo:

   Go ahead, don't tell me when to go. Your community has done enough, okay? You can shake your head. Our community does not have to kiss the ring of affluent people ... in order to see our curriculum reflected in the classroom.

4. Robert Gangi:

   White people in [ the affluent Brooklyn neighborhood of ] Park Slope virtually never get ticketed for these kind of activities whereas African-American and Latino people in different neighborhoods in this city will get sanctioned — ticketed and sometimes arrested.

5. Suniya Luthar:

   We are certainly not saying that all affluent parents do this, or even that most do. But there is a sizable and vocal minority of parents who do not just bail their kids out but do it repeatedly and do it in very inappropriate circumstances, so these are the kids who then start to believe, and rightfully so, I'm not getting caught and even if I do, nothing's going to happen to me.

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