Antonyms for well-to-dowell-to-do

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1. well-to-doadjective

   Synonyms:
   well-off, well-fixed, well-situated, affluent, wealthy, well-heeled, flush, loaded

2. well-to-doadjective

   rich; prosperous

   Synonyms:
   well-situated, well-fixed, wealthy, affluent, flush, well-off, well-heeled, loaded

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1. well-to-do

   A person is comfortable in mind when contented and measurably satisfied. A little additional brightness makes him cheerful. He is comfortable in body when free from pain, quiet, at ease, at rest. He is comfortable in circumstances, or in comfortable circumstances, when things about him are generally agreeable and satisfactory, usually with the suggestion of sufficient means to secure that result.

   Antonyms:
   cheerless, disagreeable, discontented, dissatisfied, distressed, dreary, forlorn, miserable, uncomfortable, wretched

   Synonyms:
   agreeable, at ease, at rest, cheerful, cheery, comfortable, commodious, contented, convenient, genial, pleasant, satisfactory, satisfied, snug, well-off, well-provided

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1. comfortable, easy, prosperous, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-doadjective

   in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich

   "they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards"; "easy living"; "a prosperous family"; "his family is well-situated financially"; "well-to-do members of the community"

   Antonyms:
   poor

   Synonyms:
   flourishing, thriving, promiscuous, comfy, favourable, easy, wanton, sluttish, booming, well-heeled, soft, well-situated, lucky, palmy, loose, well-off, favorable, prosperous, well-fixed, comfortable, leisurely, light, roaring, halcyon, gentle, prospering, easygoing, golden

How to use well-to-do in a sentence?

1. John Duarte for Congress:

   We have the highest taxes in the country. They keep putting the socialist burden on well-to-do retirees, business owners and their just leading California left and right right now.

2. Joe McDonald:

   Berkeley was middle class, lower middle class and working class, now, there's still a middle class, but in my neighborhood, there are homes going for $1, $2, $3 million dollars. You almost have to be well-to-do to live in Berkeley.

3. Mariana Fulger:

   Life – a sort of a plate of real-imaginary from which I nibble together with the birds of light and darkness, with the poor and well-to-do of the world at grains of to be once rough (like sharp stones), other times more like the pulp of pomegranates and ripe figs; stairs I have to climb in myself and climb down… to sometimes walk along the roads of infinity, other times, how many, to stop before the first step, waiting for the path home…

4. Tom Carter:

   A peek inside the city's many nightspots reveals a Shangri-La-di-da of tiny Shanghai socialites in even tinier outfits dancing provocatively with well-to-do Westerners. But while such sights may draw gasps from some people, the truth is that this kind of thing is nothing new for Shanghai, the Orient's original opium-den of iniquity.

5. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul:

   If a white kid is caught with it, and they're from a well-to-do family, they get a good lawyer, and they don't go to jail.

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