fat-cat

fat–cat

adjective

Definition of FAT-CAT

having goods, property, or money in abundance <the economy was in recession, but the fat-cat financiers on Wall Street didn't seem to be suffering>

Synonyms affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, loaded, moneyed (also monied), opulent, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-endowed, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do

Related Words better-off, comfortable, propertied, prosperous, substantial, successful; flourishing, prospering, thriving; advantaged, blessed (also blest), privileged

Near Antonyms unaffluent; deprived, disadvantaged, hand-to-mouth, underprivileged; bankrupt, bankrupted, beggared, broke, indebted, insolvent, pauperized, ruined, skint [chiefly British]; depressed, pinched, reduced, straitened; low, short

Antonyms destitute, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken