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rose-colored glasses en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Phrase appears as early as 1830 according to OED. From rose-color or rose-colored (meaning "pleasant"), from the notion that roses are widely regarded as uncommonly beautiful.

Meanings

1. (US, idiomatic, plural, plural-only) A cognitive or perceptual bias where an individual views something in an overly optimistic or positive light, often failing to recognize its negative aspects.
   • Such captivating beauty corresponds to our protagonist’s naive idealism, and the rose-colored glasses through which he views an upper-crust world of dandies and refined intellectuals. 2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club:
2. (US, plural, plural-only) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rose-colored, glasses.

Forms

Deriveds

view through rose-colored glasses · look through rose-colored glasses · through rose-colored glasses · wear rose-colored glasses

Translations (22)

et roosad prillid (overly optimistic perception of something) · ru ро́зовые очки́ (overly optimistic perception of something) · it occhi di bambino (overly optimistic perception of something) · ca ulleres violetes (overly optimistic perception of something) · cmn 濾鏡 /滤镜 (overly optimistic perception of something) · gd speuclairean bàn-dhearg (overly optimistic perception of something) · fr lunettes roses (overly optimistic perception of something) · tr dünyayı tozpembe görmek (overly optimistic perception of something) · fr voir la vie en rose (overly optimistic perception of something) · it gli occhi di un bambino (overly optimistic perception of something) · gd speuclairean pinc (overly optimistic perception of something) · pl różowe okulary (overly optimistic perception of something) · sv (se något i/genom) ett rosa skimmer (overly optimistic perception of something) · cs růžové brýle (overly optimistic perception of something) · uk роже́ві окуля́ри (overly optimistic perception of something) · ga spéaclaí bándearg (overly optimistic perception of something) · cy sbectol-lliw rhosyn (overly optimistic perception of something) · ja 色眼鏡 (overly optimistic perception of something) · mi te paki o Hewa (overly optimistic perception of something) · de rosarote Brille (overly optimistic perception of something) · da rose bril (overly optimistic perception of something) · fi ruusunpunaiset silmälasit (overly optimistic perception of something)