Word of the Day - Affluent

[debodun]

Affluent (adjective) - having a great deal of money; wealthy.

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are very affluent people.

 

[hollydolly]

I live in an Affluent part of the South East of England

 

[Bretrick]

Some people use their affluence to influence those in power.

 

[-Oy-]

Some people who are extremely affluent are also effluent

 

[jujube]

And then there's "affluenza", defined as the unhealthy and unwelcome psychological and social effects of affluence".

"Affluenza" has been used in the defence arguments in a few criminal trials of teenage children of affluent parents, i.e. "It's not his fault he ran over someone in his $300,000 car and left them for dead......he suffers from affluenza and never learned right from wrong!" <gag>

 

[Aunt Bea]