richness

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rich

(rĭch)

adj. rich·er, rich·est

1. Having great material wealth: He was so rich he didn't have to work.

a. Having great worth or value: a rich harvest.

b. Made of or containing valuable materials: rich cabinetry.

c. Magnificent; sumptuous: a rich banquet.

3. Abundant or productive, as:

a. Having an abundant supply: Meat is rich in protein.

b. Abounding in natural resources: a rich region.

c. Having many nutrients for plant growth; fertile: rich land.

d. Very productive and therefore financially profitable: rich seams of coal.

a. Containing a large amount of choice ingredients, such as butter, sugar, or eggs, and therefore unusually heavy or sweet: a rich dessert.

b. Strong in aroma or flavor: a rich coffee.

c. Containing a large proportion of fuel to air: a rich gas mixture.

a. Pleasantly full and mellow: a rich tenor voice.

b. Warm and strong in color: a rich brown velvet.

a. Highly varied: a museum showcasing a rich assortment of artworks.

b. Highly developed or complex: rich musical harmonies.

7. Informal Highly amusing, often for being absurd or preposterous.

n. (used with a pl. verb)

Wealthy people considered as a group. Often used with the: taxes paid by the very rich.

[Middle English riche, from Old French (of Germanic origin) and from Old English rīce, strong, powerful; see reg- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

rich′ly adv.

rich′ness n.

Synonyms: rich, affluent, moneyed, wealthy
These adjectives mean having an abundant supply of money, property, or possessions of value: a rich executive; an affluent banker; moneyed heirs; wealthy corporations.

Antonym: poor

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richness

(ˈrɪtʃnɪs)

1. (Physical Geography) the state or quality of being rich

2. (Colours) the state or quality of being rich

3. (Cookery) the state or quality of being rich

4. (Automotive Engineering) the state or quality of being rich

5. (Agriculture) the state or quality of being rich

6. (Environmental Science) ecology the number of individuals of a species in a given area

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Richesse, Richness

wealth or opulence; martins collectively, 1486.

Examples: richesse of glory, 1382; of all heavenly grace, 1590; of virtues and comfort of the Holy Ghost, 1400; of good works, 1539.

Richness

Rich as apricots in brandy —Robert D. McFadden
(Vellum) rich as country cream —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Rich as memory —Marge Piercy
Rich as velvet brocade —Morris Philipson, describing the rich texture of language in a book, New York Times Book Review, April 12, 1987

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Noun	1.	richness - the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English" profuseness, profusion, cornucopia abundance, copiousness, teemingness - the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance" overgrowth - a profusion of growth on or over something else greenness, verdancy, verdure - the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation wilderness - a bewildering profusion; "the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups"; "a wilderness of masts in the harbor"
	2.	richness - abundant wealth; "they studied forerunners of richness or poverty"; "the richness all around unsettled him for he had expected to find poverty" affluence wealth, wealthiness - the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money; "great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence" ease, comfort - a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state; "a life of luxury and ease"; "he had all the material comforts of this world"
	3.	richness - the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing; "the music had a fullness that echoed through the hall"; "the cheap wine had no body, no mellowness"; "he was well aware of the richness of his own appearance" fullness, mellowness property - a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles"
	4.	richness - the quality of having high intrinsic value; "the richness of the mines and pastureland"; "the cut of her clothes and the richness of the fabric were distinctive" value - the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable; "the Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world"
	5.	richness - the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovely in their rankness" prolificacy, rankness, fertility fruitfulness, fecundity - the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
	6.	richness - a strong deep vividness of hue; "the fire-light gave a richness of coloring to that side of the room" tint, shade, tincture, tone - a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"
	7.	richness - splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture"; "impressed by the richness of the flora" impressiveness, magnificence, grandness excellence - the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree expansiveness, expansivity - a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand; "the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed" majesty, stateliness, loftiness - impressiveness in scale or proportion

richness

noun

The quality or state of being fertile:

fecundity, fertility, fruitfulness, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy, prolificness.

Translations

غِنى، ثَرْوَه

bohatost

fyldighedrigdom

Reichtum

richesse abondance profusion

ríkidæmi

ricchezza opulenza

rikhet

bohatosť

zenginlik

丰富富裕浓烈

richness

[ˈrɪtʃnɪs] N

1. (= wealth) [of person, culture] → riqueza f

2. (= abundance) [of variety] → lo enorme; [of deposits, harvest] → abundancia f
richness in vitamins → riqueza f en vitaminas

3. (= fullness) [of life, experience] → riqueza f

4. (= fertility) [of soil] → fertilidad f

5. (= heaviness) [of food] → lo sustancioso (pej) → pesadez f

6. (= intensity) [of colour] → viveza f; [of sound, smell] → intensidad f

7. (= mellowness) [of voice] → sonoridad f

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richness

[ˈrɪtʃnɪs] n

[person, country] → richesse f

[food] → richesse f

[soil] → richesse f, fertilité f

[colour] → richesse f; [smell] → intensité f

[culture] → richesse f; [life] → plénitude fRichter scale [ˈrɪktə^rskeɪl] n → échelle f de Richter
to measure 5 on the Richter Scale → mesurer 5 sur l'échelle de Richter

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richness

(= wealthiness) → Reichtum m

(= splendour, of furniture, decoration, style, clothes) → Pracht f; (of banquet) → Üppigkeit f

(of food) → Schwere f; the richness of the food → die reichhaltige Kost

(= fertility: of soil, land) → Fruchtbarkeit f

(= intensity, of colour) → Sattheit f; (of wine) → Schwere f; (of smell) → Stärke f; the richness of his voice → seine volle Stimme

(= fullness, of life) → Erfülltheit f; (of history, experience) → Reichtum m

(Aut, of mixture) → Fettheit f

(in minerals, vitamins etc) → Reichtum m (→ in an +dat)

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richness

[ˈrɪtʃnɪs] n (see adj) → ricchezza, (alto) contenuto di grassi, intensità f inv, sontuosità f inv

rich

(ritʃ) adjective

1. wealthy; having a lot of money, possessions etc. a rich man/country.

2. (with in) having a lot (of something). This part of the country is rich in coal.

3. valuable. a rich reward; rich materials.

4. containing a lot of fat, eggs, spices etc. a rich sauce.

5. (of clothes, material etc) very beautiful and expensive.

ˈrichly adverb

ˈrichness noun

ˈriches noun plural

wealth.

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Her sex, her youth, and the whole richness of her beauty, came back from what men call the irrevocable past, and clustered themselves with her maiden hope, and a happiness before unknown, within the magic circle of this hour.

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A graceful cradle of willow, with all its dainty furbishings, was laid upon the pyre, which had already been fed with the richness of a priceless layette.

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There is something meagre about us; our line is wanting in roundness, our composition in richness. We lack temperament; we don't know how to live; nous ne savons pas vivre, as they say here.

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Hayward led them into a large, long room, dingily magnificent, with huge pictures on the walls of nude women: they were vast allegories of the school of Haydon; but smoke, gas, and the London atmosphere had given them a richness which made them look like old masters.

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"You remember seeing me, then?" he remarked, and his tone sounded all the colder after the full richness of her young voice.

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She is broad and square, round-legged, broad-hipped, with generous breasts of richness. There is Nena.

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I know not with what fine and costly material the heidelburgh Tun was coated within, but in superlative richness that coating could not possibly have compared with the silken pearl-colored membrane, like the line of a fine pelisse, forming the inner surface of the Sperm Whale's case.

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But what further depreciates the whale as a civilized dish, is his exceeding richness. He is the great prize ox of the sea, too fat to be delicately good.

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The smooth richness of their diction; the amiable sweetness of their mood, their gracious caprice, the delicacy of their satire (which was so kind that it should have some other name), their abundance of light and color, and the deep heart of humanity underlying their airiest fantasticality, all united in an effect which was different from any I had yet known.

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His language has the richness and sententious fullness of the Chinese.

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There is a mellow richness, a subdued color, in the old pictures, which is to the eye what muffled and mellowed sound is to the ear.

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The climate is mild, being sheltered by lateral ranges of mountains; while the soil, for richness, has been equalled to the best of the Missouri lands.