roseate

adjective

ro·se·ate ˈrō-zē-ət How to pronounce roseate (audio)

-zē-ˌāt

: resembling a rose especially in color

: overly optimistic : viewed favorably

roseately adverb

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"Everything's coming up roses." "He views the world through rose-tinted glasses." "She has a rosy outlook on life." In English, we tend to associate roses and rose color with optimism, and roseate is no exception. Roseate comes from the Latin adjective roseus, and ultimately from the noun rosa, meaning "rose." Figurative use of roseate (with the meaning "happy" or "smiling") began in the 18th century, but the literal sense of the term has been in the language since the 15th century. It's especially well-suited to literary descriptions of sunrises and sunsets: "through yon peaks of cloud-like snow / The roseate sunlight quivers," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley in Prometheus Unbound. And in an early short story, Edith Wharton wrote, "The sunset was perfect and a roseate light, transfiguring the distant spire, lingered late in the west."

Example Sentences

a bird with roseate feathers one analyst who envisions a qualifiedly roseate future for the nation's automotive industry

Recent Examples on the Web Cape Cod: Large numbers of shearwaters offshore including 2,250 great shearwaters, 750 Cory’s shearwaters, 90 sooty shearwaters, and 100 manx shearwaters, in addition to a Baird’s sandpiper, a black tern, and three roseate terns.

BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022 And Billie Eilish took the self-facing art form back to its roots with a series of pouty mirror snaps with a mussed chop and roseate blush.

Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 24 July 2022 Carnivores also include reptiles like the Burmese python and the gharial, birds like vultures and roseate spoonbills, and some cuter mammals like otters and seals.

Zachary Smith, cleveland, 26 May 2022 An elegant pompadour updo worn with a soft-focus glow punctuated by roseate smoky eyes, fluttery falsies, and a bright cherry red lip.

Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2022 Visitors can spot egrets, anhingas, ducks, eagles, hawks, vultures, gallinules, osprey, blackbirds, roseate spoonbills, woodpeckers and more.

Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2021 These ringing blue skies, these wide roseate plains, these great, windy sweeps of land exist nowhere else.

Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021 From Georges Island in Boston Harbor, sightings included flyby eight great shearwaters, a Cory’s shearwater, 16 Wilson’s storm-petrels, a whimbrel, a Forster’s tern, 12 roseate terns, and two cliff swallows.

BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021 Modest numbers of Cory’s, great, sooty, and Manx shearwaters were spotted at Race Point in Provincetown, where a South Polar skua, two parasitic jaegers, and 300 roseate terns were also observed.

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单词	roseate
释义	roseate adjective ro·se·ate ˈrō-zē-ət -zē-ˌāt 1 : resembling a rose especially in color 2 : overly optimistic : viewed favorably roseately adverb Did you know? "Everything's coming up roses." "He views the world through rose-tinted glasses." "She has a rosy outlook on life." In English, we tend to associate roses and rose color with optimism, and roseate is no exception. Roseate comes from the Latin adjective roseus, and ultimately from the noun rosa, meaning "rose." Figurative use of roseate (with the meaning "happy" or "smiling") began in the 18th century, but the literal sense of the term has been in the language since the 15th century. It's especially well-suited to literary descriptions of sunrises and sunsets: "through yon peaks of cloud-like snow / The roseate sunlight quivers," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley in Prometheus Unbound. And in an early short story, Edith Wharton wrote, "The sunset was perfect and a roseate light, transfiguring the distant spire, lingered late in the west." Synonyms auspicious bright encouraging fair golden heartening hopeful likely optimistic promising propitious rose-colored rosy upbeat See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences a bird with roseate feathers one analyst who envisions a qualifiedly roseate future for the nation's automotive industry Recent Examples on the Web Cape Cod: Large numbers of shearwaters offshore including 2,250 great shearwaters, 750 Cory’s shearwaters, 90 sooty shearwaters, and 100 manx shearwaters, in addition to a Baird’s sandpiper, a black tern, and three roseate terns. BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022 And Billie Eilish took the self-facing art form back to its roots with a series of pouty mirror snaps with a mussed chop and roseate blush. Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 24 July 2022 Carnivores also include reptiles like the Burmese python and the gharial, birds like vultures and roseate spoonbills, and some cuter mammals like otters and seals. Zachary Smith, cleveland, 26 May 2022 An elegant pompadour updo worn with a soft-focus glow punctuated by roseate smoky eyes, fluttery falsies, and a bright cherry red lip. Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2022 Visitors can spot egrets, anhingas, ducks, eagles, hawks, vultures, gallinules, osprey, blackbirds, roseate spoonbills, woodpeckers and more. Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2021 These ringing blue skies, these wide roseate plains, these great, windy sweeps of land exist nowhere else. Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021 From Georges Island in Boston Harbor, sightings included flyby eight great shearwaters, a Cory’s shearwater, 16 Wilson’s storm-petrels, a whimbrel, a Forster’s tern, 12 roseate terns, and two cliff swallows. BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021 Modest numbers of Cory’s, great, sooty, and Manx shearwaters were spotted at Race Point in Provincetown, where a South Polar skua, two parasitic jaegers, and 300 roseate terns were also observed. BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021 See More Word History Etymology Middle English roseat, borrowed from Medieval Latin roseātus, from, Latin roseus "made of roses, rose-colored, reddish" (from rosa rose entry 2 + -eus -eous) + -ātus -ate entry 3 First Known Use 15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Phrases Containing roseate roseate tern roseate spoonbill roseate tern roseate spoonbill roseate adjective as in bright having qualities which inspire hope one analyst who envisions a qualifiedly roseate future for the nation's automotive industry Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance bright promising rosy optimistic golden rose-colored propitious auspicious hopeful encouraging likely upbeat heartening fair reassuring positive soothing favorable comforting cheering doubtless good unhesitating assured confident decisive bullish beamish sure eupeptic Antonyms & Near Antonyms dark gloomy bleak pessimistic dismal hopeless cheerless depressing desperate unpromising dreary unlikely discouraging inauspicious unpropitious gray disheartening uncertain grim doubtful grey downbeat dubious negative unfavorable comfortless unencouraging glum wretched funereal bearish miserable See More
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