Not poor or bland
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adjective
- Having abundant possessions and especially material wealth
- Having high value or quality
- Well supplied or endowed
"a city rich in traditions"
- Magnificently impressive sumptuous
- Vivid and deep in color
"a rich red"
- Full and mellow in tone and quality
"a rich voice"
- Having a strong fragrance
"rich perfumes"
- Highly productive or remunerative
"a rich mine"
- Having abundant plant nutrients
"rich soil"
- Highly seasoned, fatty, oily, or sweet
"rich foods"
- High in the combustible component
"a rich fuel mixture"
- High in some component
"cholesterol-rich foods"
- Entertaining
- Meaningful, significant
"rich allusions"
- Lush
"rich meadows"
- Pure or nearly pure
"rich lime"
biographical name
- Adrienne Cecile 1929–2012 American poet
idiom
- Extremely rich
idiom
- To make a large amount of money quickly
noun
- Rich people who do not have to work
"elegant and expensive resorts catering to the idle rich"
idiom
- Extremely rich having so much money that one's wealth is disgusting or offensive
noun
- People who are rich
"the rich and famous"
verb
- To take a course go
"struck off through the brush"
- To aim and usually deliver a blow, stroke, or thrust (as with the hand, a weapon, or a tool)
- To arrive with detrimental effect
"disaster struck"
- To attempt to undermine or harm something as if by a blow
"struck at … cherished notions"
- To come into contact forcefully
"two ships struck in mid channel"
- To delete something
- To lower a flag usually in surrender
- To become indicated by a clock, bell, or chime
"the hour had just struck"
- To make known the time by sounding
"the clock struck as they entered"
- Pierce, penetrate
"the wind seemed to strike through our clothes"
- To engage in battle
- To make a military attack
- To become ignited
"the match struck"
- To discover something
"struck on a new plan of attack"
- To pull on a fishing rod in order to set the hook
- To seize the bait
- Dart, shoot
- To take root
- Germinate
- To make an impression
- To stop work in order to force an employer to comply with demands
- To make a beginning
"the need to strike vigorously for success"
- To thrust oneself forward
"he struck into the midst of the argument"
- To work diligently strive
- To strike at hit
- To drive or remove by or as if by a blow
- To attack or seize with a sharp blow (as of fangs or claws)
"struck by a snake"
- Inflict
"strike a blow"
- To produce by or as if by a blow or stroke
"Moses struck water from the rock"
- To separate by a sharp blow
"strike off flints"
- To haul down lower
"strike the sails"
- To dismantle and take away
"strike the set"
- To strike the tents of (a camp)
- To afflict suddenly
"stricken by a heart attack"
- To engage in (a battle) fight
- To make a military attack on
- Delete, cancel
"strike the last paragraph"
- To penetrate painfully pierce
- To cause to penetrate
"strike the needle"
- To send down or out
"trees struck roots deep into the soil"
- To level (something, such as a measure of grain) by scraping off what is above the rim
- To smooth or form (something, such as a mold) with a tool
- To indicate by sounding
"the clock struck one"
- To come into contact or collision with
"the car struck the tree"
- To fall on
- To become audible to
- To affect with a mental or emotional state or a strong emotion
"struck with horror at the sight"
- To affect a person with (a strong emotion)
"words that struck fear in the listeners"
- To cause to become by or as if by a sudden blow
"struck him dead"
- To produce by stamping
"strike a coin"
- To make and ratify the terms of
"strike a bargain"
- To play or produce by hitting or plucking keys or strings
"struck a series of chords on the piano"
- To produce as if by playing an instrument
"his voice struck a note of concern"
- To hook (a fish) by a sharp pull on the line
- To snatch at (a bait)
- To occur to
"the answer struck me suddenly"
- To appear to especially as a revelation or as remarkable impress
"it struck the crowd as insensitive"
- Bewitch
- To arrive at by or as if by computation
"strike a balance"
- To come to attain
- To come upon discover
"strike gold"
- To engage in a strike against (an employer)
- Take on, assume
"strike a pose"
- To place (a plant cutting) in a medium for growth and rooting
- To so propagate (a plant)
- To make one's way along
"will strike the southern coast"
- To cause (an arc) to form (as between electrodes of an arc lamp)
- To oviposit on or in
This clue was used on April 5, 2025.
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