roseate

UK /ˈɹoʊzi.ət/ US /ˈɹoʊzi.ət/
adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

Like the rose flower; pink; rosy.

The countess took the roseate palm and snowy fingers of this lovely child.

Now the rum, as has been said, was criminally overproof, and they had had no intoxicants for a long time. And so a couple of stiff drinks produced a beautiful and generous expansion of soul. The mean cabin became larger, the fire warmer and more cheerful, and life generally of a more roseate hue. They began to feel the prodigal Thanksgiving spirit, and to regret their limited opportunities for satisfying it.

2

Full of roses.

To fund the purchase, he had to sell a late Renoir, The Judgment of Paris, with its depiction of weighty ladies frolicking in a roseate garden.

3

Excessively optimistic.

Viewed from this perspective, the behaviour of the digital giants looks rather different from the roseate hallucinations of Wired magazine.

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