Synonyms of silk-stocking

silk-stocking 1 of 2

adjective

ˈsilk-ˈstä-kiŋ 

1

as in wealthy

having goods, property, or money in abundance

the luxurious resort caters exclusively to a silk-stocking clientele

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wealthy
• rich
• affluent
• moneyed
• well-to-do
• opulent
• fat-cat
• successful
• well-heeled
• well-endowed
• well-off
• deep-pocketed
• prosperous
• fat
• in the chips
• comfortable
• well-fixed
• propertied
• loaded
• flush
• better-off
• prospering
• thriving
• substantial
• privileged
• flourishing
• advantaged
• blessed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• poor
• indigent
• impoverished
• penniless
• impecunious
• destitute
• needy
• penurious
• deprived
• poverty-stricken
• underprivileged
• disadvantaged
• bankrupt
• hand-to-mouth
• indebted
• insolvent
• ruined
• unaffluent
• broke
• depressed
• short
• reduced
• straitened
• pinched
• low
• pauperized
• beggared
• skint
• bankrupted

2

as in aristocratic

of high birth, rank, or station

detectives assigned to investigate crimes among the silk-stocking types found on the city's gold coast

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aristocratic
• noble
• upper-crust
• upper-class
• patrician
• genteel
• highbred
• blue-blooded
• highborn
• gentle
• grand
• royal
• great
• wellborn
• superior
• exalted
• regal
• high
• senior
• princely
• ladylike
• lofty
• gentlemanly
• high-level
• lordly
• queenly
• knightly
• elevated
• kingly
• ennobled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• common
• lower-class
• plebeian
• humble
• low
• lowly
• ignoble
• inferior
• mean
• bastard
• nonaristocratic
• ordinary
• ungenteel
• illegitimate
• plain
• knavish
• baseborn
• junior
• subordinate
• degraded
• abased

silk stocking

2 of 2

noun

as in have

a wealthy person

made her reputation as an interior designer for the silk stockings of Nob Hill

Synonyms & Similar Words

• have
• capitalist
• deep pocket
• money
• fat cat
• magnate
• plutocrat
• moneybags
• Croesus
• billionaire
• heir
• heiress
• tycoon
• moneymaker
• jeunesse dorée
• multimillionairess
• millionaire
• nabob
• multimillionaire
• money-spinner
• multibillionaire
• gazillionaire
• zillionaire
• jet-setter

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• have-not
• bankrupt
• pauper
• beggar

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of silk-stocking

Adjective

The sprawling, silk-stocking firm has helped foster the careers of many young conservative lawyers. — Dan Sullivan, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026

Snaking through the salons of an old Paris mansion, the circuitous catwalk is marked with bundles of spindly wood branches and vibrant floral blooms, adornments that add an ethereal air to the silk-stocking grandeur. — Courtney Crowder, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025

The space, built as the Seventh Regiment Armory in 1861, once housed a National Guard troupe known as the silk-stocking unit, whose members came from some of the city’s most influential families (think Vanderbilts and Roosevelts). — Barbara Schuler, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2023

Noun

The record also states that the boys were wearing heavy wool coats and silk stockings in the middle of summer in Philly. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026

In Girard’s household, at least three women would have mended his silk stockings and other clothes. — Emily J. Whitted, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2026

Bjork, however, went all-in on the look, posing on the cover of Vogue Scandinavia in the blurred tulle Margiela gown with a merkin wig, fashioned from real human hair and painstakingly embroidered to the crotch of an underlaid silk stocking bodysuit. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025

Cousin’s body was sprawled on the bed — nude with a silk stocking tied tightly around her neck. — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 15 June 2025

Underneath are layers of newspaper clippings about racist terrorism, with a silk stocking stretched over them—an allusion to the girls murdered in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing. — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 May 2025

Related Articles Anthony Vaccarello told WWD that the brand’s totally translucent silk stocking extravaganza for fall 2024 was inspired by ideals of fragility, something that surely strikes home for both musicians. — Violet Goldstone, WWD, 25 Sep. 2024

Early sales mostly cut into the market for cheaper rayon and cotton stockings, however, giving silk stocking makers time to make the transition. — Virginia Postrel, Twin Cities, 1 Nov. 2019

The garments hearken to past centuries when the lines between gender were not so fixed, when men wore ruffles and silk stockings and everyone wore wigs and powdered their hair. — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2019