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rosy [ˈrəʊzɪ] adj rosier, rosiest
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) of the colour rose or pink 2. having a healthy pink complexion rosy cheeks 3. optimistic, esp excessively so a rosy view of social improvements 4. full of health, happiness, or joy rosy slumbers 5. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) resembling, consisting of, or abounding in roses rosily adv rosiness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
rosy adjective 1. glowing, fresh, blooming, flushed, blushing, radiant, reddish, ruddy, healthy-looking, roseate, rubicund She had bright, rosy cheeks. glowing white, grey, pale, wan, sickly, colourless, pallid, ashen 2. promising, encouraging, bright, reassuring, optimistic, hopeful, sunny, cheerful, favourable, auspicious, rose-coloured, roseate Is the future really so rosy? promising depressing, unhappy, dull, discouraging, miserable, gloomy, hopeless, dismal, pessimistic, unpromising, down in the dumps (informal), cheerless noun & adjective Translations rosy [ˈrəʊzɪ] ADJ (rosier (compar) (rosiest (superl))) 2. (fig) [future, prospect] → prometedor, halagüeño rosy [ˈrəʊzi] adj [cheeks, complexion] → rose (= promising) [future, prospects] → tout en rose a rosy future → un bel avenir, un avenir tout en rose Is the picture really so rosy? BUT La situation est-elle vraiment si rose?. to look rosy → se présenter bien Things look very rosy for the Social Democrats → Les choses se présentent très bien pour les socio-démocrates. rosy rosy [ˈrəʊzɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → roseo/a to paint a rosy picture of sth (fig) → dipingere qc a tinte rosa rosy [ˈrəʊzɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → roseo/a to paint a rosy picture of sth (fig) → dipingere qc a tinte rosa How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The furniture was made of rare old woods richly carved and covered with delicate satins, and the entire palace was lighted by a mysterious rosy glow that seemed to come from no particular place but flooded each apartment with its soft and pleasing radiance. Fred,' said Mr Swiveller, 'remember the once popular melody of Begone dull care; fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. I climbed the grass-clad mountain, And my gaze swept far and wide For the rosy lights of a little room, Where I thought my mother sighed: My boy has gone for a soldier, He sleeps not day and night; But my boy is wise, and may yet return, Though the dead lie far from sight. |
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