Poor
Poor adjective - Lacking money or material possessions.
Usage example: every year, we make up a basket of food at Thanksgiving for a poor family in the neighborhood
Wealthy is an antonym for poor in topics: impoverished, unfortunate, weak, deficient, lacking sufficient money.
Wealthy
Wealthy adjective - Having goods, property, or money in abundance.
Usage example: a wealthy man who likes to collect antique cars
Both words in one sentence
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However, unlike a typical example, there's little segregation between the poor and the wealthy.
Source: Layered Metropolis -
In They Live, the wealthy elite of society are secretly cooperating with a race of aliens that are slowly taking over everything, effecting a widening financial gap between the poor and wealthy, and are implied to be terraforming the entire planet to fit their native climate.
Source: Les Collaborateurs -
The former see it as an affront to God by interfering with His design, while the latter see it as causing the gap between wealthy and poor to become even wider, as those that have augments will get preferential treatment because they're physically more capable.
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