Greasy vs. Rich — What's the Difference?

Covered with, resembling, or produced by grease or oil

Having great material wealth

(of a person or their manner) unpleasantly or insincerely polite or ingratiating

Having great worth or value

Coated or soiled with grease.

Made of or containing valuable materials

Containing grease, especially too much grease

Magnificent; sumptuous

Suggestive of grease in slickness or slipperiness

Having an abundant supply

Having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease.

Abounding in natural resources

Containing a lot of grease or fat.

Having many nutrients for plant growth; fertile

(slang) shady, sketchy, dodgy, detestable, unethical.

Very productive and therefore financially profitable

(obsolete) fat, bulky

Containing a large amount of choice ingredients, such as butter, sugar, or eggs, and therefore unusually heavy or sweet

(obsolete) gross; indelicate; indecent

Strong in aroma or flavor

(of a horse) Afflicted with the disease called grease.

Containing a large proportion of fuel to air

Composed of, or characterized by, grease; oily; unctuous; as, a greasy dish.

Pleasantly full and mellow

Smeared or defiled with grease.

Warm and strong in color

Like grease or oil; smooth; seemingly unctuous to the touch, as is mineral soapstone.

Highly varied

Fat of body; bulky.

Highly developed or complex

Gross; indelicate; indecent.

(Informal) Highly amusing, often for being absurd or preposterous.

Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil;

Wealthy people considered as a group. Often used with the

Smeared or soiled with grease or oil;

Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.

Remunerative.

Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.

Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.

Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.

Not faint or delicate; vivid.

(informal) Very amusing.

(informal) Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.

(computing) Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.

Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.

Of a fuel-air mixture: having more fuel (thus less air) than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.

(finance) Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society.

To enrich.

To become rich.

Having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; affluent; - opposed to poor.

Hence, in general, well supplied; abounding; abundant; copious; bountiful; as, a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop.

Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful; as, rich soil or land; a rich mine.

Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly; as, a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents.

Abounding in agreeable or nutritive qualities; - especially applied to articles of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or are sweet, luscious, and high-flavored; as, a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; rich wine or fruit.

Not faint or delicate; vivid; as, a rich color.

Full of sweet and harmonius sounds; as, a rich voice; rich music.

Abounding in beauty; gorgeous; as, a rich landscape; rich scenery.

Abounding in humor; exciting amusement; entertaining; as, the scene was a rich one; a rich incident or character.

To enrich.

Possessing material wealth;

Having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources);

Of great worth or quality;

Marked by great fruitfulness;

Strong; intense;

Very productive;

High in mineral content; having a a high proportion of fuel to air;

Suggestive of or characterized by great expense;

Marked by richness and fullness of flavor;

Highly seasoned or containing large amounts of choice ingredients such as butter or sugar or eggs;

Pleasantly full and mellow;

Affording an abundant supply;