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Roseate

//ˈɹoʊzi.ət// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Like the rose flower; pink; rosy. formal

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

  2. 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. 3
    Excessively optimistic. figuratively

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

Adjective
  1. 1
    of something having a dusty purplish pink color wordnet

Etymology

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

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