having sufficient money for comfortable living; well-to-do.
2.
in a satisfactory, favorable, or good position or condition:
If you have your health, you are well-off.
Origin
1725-35
Synonyms
1. prosperous, wealthy, affluent, comfortable.
British Dictionary definitions for well off
well-off
adjective (well off when postpositive)
1.
in a comfortable or favourable position or state
2.
financially well provided for; moderately rich
Word Origin and History for well off
well-off
adj.
1733, "comfortable," from well (adv.) + off. Meaning "prosperous, not poor" is recorded from 1849.
Idioms and Phrases with well off
well off
In fortunate circumstances, especially wealthy or prosperous, as in They're quite well off now. This phrase may be a shortening of come well off, that is, “emerge in good circumstances.” [ First half of 1600s ]