rose-colored
Definition
- Adjective:
- Having a pink or reddish-pink color similar to that of a rose flower. This is the literal meaning describing a specific hue.
- Excessively optimistic, cheerful, or idealized; seeing things in an unrealistically positive light. This is the figurative meaning, suggesting a tendency to ignore problems or difficulties.
Usage Examples
- Adjective (Literal Color):
- She wore a beautiful rose-colored dress to the party.
- The sky turned a soft rose-colored hue at sunset.
- Adjective (Figurative Optimism):
- His rose-colored view of the company's future ignored the clear financial risks.
- She has a rose-colored memory of her childhood, forgetting all the difficult times.
Advanced Usage
- The figurative sense is almost always used in a slightly critical or cautionary way, implying that the optimism is naive or disconnected from reality.
- It is frequently used in the fixed phrase "rose-colored glasses" or "rose-tinted glasses."
Variants and Related Words
- Rose-tinted (adj): Functionally identical to "rose-colored," especially in the figurative sense. "Rose-tinted glasses" is a common variant.
- Rosy (adj): Can mean pink in color () or, more commonly, promising and optimistic (). "Rosy" is a more general synonym for the figurative sense.
- Rose-colored glasses / Rose-tinted glasses (idiomatic noun phrase): An attitude of seeing only the good and pleasant things about a situation, thereby ignoring its negative aspects.
Synonyms
- Optimistic: Hopeful and confident about the future.
- Idealistic: Characterized by idealism; unrealistically aiming for perfection.
- Pollyannaish (adj): Excessively cheerful or optimistic, derived from the fictional character Pollyanna.
- Panglossian (adj): Excessively optimistic, derived from the character Pangloss in Voltaire's .
Related Idioms
- To see/view/look at the world through rose-colored glasses: To have an unrealistically cheerful or optimistic perspective on life, ignoring problems.
- He's not being realistic; he's looking at the investment through rose-colored glasses.
- You need to take off your rose-tinted glasses and see the situation for what it is.
Adjective
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having a rose color
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reflecting optimism
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a rosy future
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looked at the world through rose-colored glasses
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