wealthfuladj.
/ˈwɛlθfʊl/ Now rare.
Abounding in wealth; †happy (obsolete), rich, prosperous; conducive to wealth. †wealthful of, abounding in.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective]
richeOE
eadyOE
richfulc1300
plenteousc1350
wealthyc1380
wealthfula1400
wlouȝa1400
wellc1405
biga1425
goldedc1450
substantious1490
able1516
opulent?1518
substantive1543
strong1581
fat1611
juicy1627
fortuned1632
affluent1652
rhinocerical1688
rough1721
rowthy1792
golden1797
strong-handed1817
well-to-do1831
wealth-encumbered1844
nabobish1857
rhinoceral1860
ingoted1864
tinny1871
pocket-filled1886
oofy1896
nawabi1955
brewstered2001
the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > characterized by prosperity
wealthfula1400
boona1513
summer1592
sunshine1594
palmy1604
white?1614
booming1879
boomy1888
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > abounding in or having abundance
fulleOE
ranka1250
broada1300
rifec1325
copiousa1387
wealthful ofa1400
plaina1450
heavy-ladenc1450
fluenta1592
onust1604
heavy1622
onusted1657
opulent1685
aflooda1729
rowtha1774
acrawl1830
lousy1843
awash1912
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 641 Þis is a stede of welthful wone.
1447 O. Bokenham Christina in Lyvys Seyntys 4 A cyte..Weldful and ful off werldly solas.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 211 This man..at ȝe sa welthfull mak.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. clvi. sig. Tviii/2 In good & fatte grounde growyth good eere in grete quantytee and welthfull [a1398 BL Add. wel ful] of greynes.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xv. lviii. sig. Gvi/2 Though this prouynce be lityll in space. yet it is welthfull of many specyall thynges & good.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xvii. sig. Q.vii God hauing many mansions, and all wonderful welthfull in his fathers house.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 38/1 All is..quiete, and likelie righte wel to prosper in wealthful peace under youre coseyns.
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 30/1 in Chron. I Al things necessarie for the wealthfull state of man.
1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad 464 Malacca's castled harbour here survey, The wealthful seat foredoom'd of Lusian sway.
1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. iii. vi. 274 It is a lovely rain,..healthful, wealthful, beneficent.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > [adverb]
richlyOE
richa1325
wealthfully?1529
wealthily1534
opulently1542
affluently1631
substantially1656
?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. ii. sig. U.ijv To lede thy lyfe welthfully.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > [noun]
plentyc1300
richness?a1400
wealthfulnessc1450
wealthinessa1513
substantiousness1596
plenitya1622
plenitude1631
rowthinessa1838
flushness1868
divitism1890
oofiness1935
c1450 tr. Boeth. de Consol. (Bodl. Auct. F. 3. 5) i. met. vii. lf. 220 b Gladnes in hauynge of worldely welthefulnes.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 206 To leve ay in welthfulnes.
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