rose-coloured en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From rose + coloured.
Meanings
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Having a pink colour suggestive of that of a pink rose.
The room was still overpowerfully rose-coloured though the last of the sunshine glimmered amber at the windows, catching Mirabel’s long thin legs and turning them golden-brown.
1988, M[argaret] R[eid] D[uncan] Meek, chapter 25, in A Mouthful of Sand (Lennox Kemp; 7), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1989, →ISBN, page 190:That had never happened yet; and now her imagination, instead of retracing the past, was busy fashioning what would happen to-morrow—whereabout in the Chase she should see him coming towards her, how she should put her new rose-coloured ribbon on, which he had never seen, and what he would say to her to make her return his glance—a glance which she would be living through in her memory, over and over again, all the rest of the day.
1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Hetty’s World”, in Adam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 185:
- (idiomatic) Cheerfully optimistic.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more rose-coloured | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| rose-colored | alternative | lexicographic | |
| most rose-coloured | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
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Synonyms
rose-hued · rose-tinted · rosy
Translations (13)
fi ruusunpunainen (cheerfully optimistic) · es de color de rosa (cheerfully optimistic) · fi ruusunpunainen (having pink colour) · cy rhosliw (having pink colour) · eo rozkolora (having pink colour) · grc ῥοδίνος (having pink colour) · nl rooskleurig (cheerfully optimistic) · la roseus (having pink colour) · es de color rosa (cheerfully optimistic) · eo roza (having pink colour) · vo rosadakölik (having pink colour) · nl rooskleurig (having pink colour) · eo roza (cheerfully optimistic)