affluent
wealthy
Roots
- ad- / a-: to, toward, added onto, or intensified
- flu / flux: flow
Other words with the flu / flux root
Affluent keeps the flow image: resources seem to flow toward the person or place.
The affluent suburb had three libraries and a private test center.
Affluence is wealth imagined as flow. Money, comfort, access, and opportunity keep arriving, while other places are left dry.