rosy-colored

Thân thiện

The artist painted the sky with a rosy-colored hue at sunset.

Definition

Adjective: 1. Having a rose color; pinkish-red: Describes something that is colored like a rose, typically a light to medium pink or reddish-pink hue.

Usage

The adjective "rosy-colored" is used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb like 'be' or 'seem') to describe the specific pinkish color of an object. It often carries a positive, pleasant, or romantic connotation due to its association with roses.

Examples

• The sky at dawn was a beautiful rosy-colored canvas.
• She painted her room a soft, rosy-colored shade.
• The fabric appeared rosy-colored in the candlelight.

Advanced Usage

• Figurative Use (Optimism): While the primary meaning is literal color description, "rosy-colored" can be part of the common idiom "rose-colored glasses" (or "rosy-colored glasses"), which means an optimistic or naively positive perspective.
  • He tends to view the past through rosy-colored glasses, forgetting all the difficulties.

Variants and Related Words

• Rose-colored (adj.): A more common variant with identical meaning.
• Rosy (adj.): Can mean pinkish in color, but more frequently means optimistic, hopeful, or promising (e.g., a rosy future).
• Roseate (adj.): A more formal or literary term meaning rose-colored or overly optimistic.

Synonyms

• Pinkish
• Blush
• Rose
• Rosaceous (technical/biological)

Antonyms

• Colorless
• Drab
• Dull

Học thuật

Adjective

1. having a rose color

Từ đồng nghĩa

• rose-colored