well-heeled
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.89 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: well-endowed, wealthy; see also Thesaurus:wealthy"
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
more well-heeled (comparative)
most well-heeled (superlative)