Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having the color rose.
- adj. Cheerful or optimistic, especially to an excessive degree: took a rose-colored view of the situation.
- idiom. through rose-colored glasses With an unduly cheerful, optimistic, or favorable view of things: see the world through rose-colored glasses.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the color of a rose; rosy: as, the rose-colored pastors, the starlings of the genus Pastor. See cut under Pastor.
- Uncommonly beautiful; hence, extravagantly fine or pleasing: as, rose-colored views of the future.
Wiktionary
- adj. US alternative spelling of rose-coloured.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the color of a pink rose; rose-pink; of a delicate pink color.
- adj. Uncommonly beautiful; hence, extravagantly fine or pleasing; alluring.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a rose color
- adj. reflecting optimism
Etymologies
- rose + colored (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It's a magical dress of rose-colored silk that transports Louise on her first time-traveling trip.”
The Huffington Post: Mary Kincaid: Interview with Bianca Turetsky, The Time-Traveling Fashionista
“In other words, after several quarters of too much pessimism, Wall Street may have become too rose-colored heading into this quarter's reporting season.”
The Wall Street Journal: Wall Street May Be Wearing Rose-Colored Glasses—Again
“Though maybe that's me seeing through rose-colored glasses again.”
“These are, admittedly, highly rose-colored numbers for a short term solution.”
The Huffington Post: Stephen Herrington: Retiring the National Debt by Not Destroying the Economy
“With rose-colored glasses shall we deny the realities of the unregulated global economy, and the availability of cheap labor overseas?”
The Huffington Post: Cynthia Dill: The Road That Will Make All the Difference in the Maine Woods
“At the tents in New York this week, editors, bloggers and publicity people are donning Instagram's digital rose-colored glasses and uploading images by the thousands, to the chagrin of some professional photographers.”
The Wall Street Journal: Style as Seen Through Rose-Colored iPhone App
“Painting a truthful picture about what the maintenance positions entailed—restroom cleaning assignment responsibilities; the daily wipe down of the Yankee Stadium seats section by section; the power-washing and scrub-brushing of everything concrete; massive wipe downs of the many blue stadium columns; major squeegee work on rainy days; the transport of large bins of food and trash to garbage and recycling dumpsters—the brush they used on the job description disrupted my rose-colored canvas.”
“It sees a “reality” through its own rose-colored glasses of a white conservative America that is unstoppable and deeply religious.”
“Items recovered from decedent's jacket pocket: half a Big Mac wrapper, a bottle of pink stuff, rose-colored comb with missing teeth, address book”
“He repeated the motion several times, and the rose-colored heap grew larger and larger until it seemed that so much mass could not have been contained within the now-hollowed fruit.”
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