Meanings
comparative more rose-coloured · superlative most rose-coloured · alternative rose-colored
- 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 1901 more example
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 185Synonyms: rosy
- idiomaticCheerfully optimistic.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving a pink colour suggestive of that of a pink rose.
Origin
Translations
Ancient Greek ῥοδίνος
- ῥοδίνος (rhodínos)having pink colour
Dutch rooskleurig, rooskleurig
- rooskleurighaving pink colour
- rooskleurigcheerfully optimistic
Esperanto rozkolora, roza
- rozkolorahaving pink colour
- rozahaving pink colour
- rozacheerfully optimistic
Finnish ruusunpunainen, ruusunpunainen
- ruusunpunainenhaving pink colour
- ruusunpunainencheerfully optimistic
Latin roseus
- roseushaving pink colour
Spanish de color de rosa, de color rosa
- de color de rosacheerfully optimistic
- de color rosacheerfully optimistic
Welsh rhosliw
- rhosliwhaving pink colour
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