Dictionary

roseate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹoʊzi.ət/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɹəʊzɪət/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English roseat, from Anglo-Latin roseātus, equivalent to rose + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. (formal) Like the rose flower; pink; rosy.
   • The countess took the roseate palm and snowy fingers of this lovely child. 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
   • 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. 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
   • On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon. 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:
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. 2018, Thom Nickels, Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters behind the Walls:
3. (figuratively) Rosy; optimistic.
   • Nothing could have seemed more assured and roseate than her professional future. 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
   • Viewed from this perspective, the behaviour of the digital giants looks rather different from the roseate hallucinations of Wired magazine. 2019 January 20, John Naughton, “‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism”, in The Guardian:

Forms

Deriveds

roseate cockatoo · roseately · roseate tern · roseate spoonbill

Synonyms

pinkish · rosy · pink

Translations (4)

eo rozkolora ((formal) pink; rosy) · fr rosâtre ((formal) pink; rosy) · bg розов ((formal) pink; rosy) · io rozatra ((formal) pink; rosy)