roseate

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Etymology

From Middle English roseat, from Anglo-Latin roseātus, equivalent to rose +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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roseate (comparative more roseate, superlative most roseate)

  1. (formal, chiefly zoology) Like the rose flower; pink; rosy.
    Synonyms: pink, pinkish, rosy
    • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in The Last Man. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC:
      The countess took the roseate palm and snowy fingers of this lovely child.
    • 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
      Now the rum, as has been said, was criminally overproof, and they had had no intoxicants for a long time. And so a couple of stiff drinks produced a beautiful and generous expansion of soul. The mean cabin became larger, the fire warmer and more cheerful, and life generally of a more roseate hue. They began to feel the prodigal Thanksgiving spirit, and to regret their limited opportunities for satisfying it.
    • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:
      On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.
  2. Full of roses.
    • 2018, Thom Nickels, Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters behind the Walls:
      To fund the purchase, he had to sell a late Renoir, The Judgment of Paris, with its depiction of weighty ladies frolicking in a roseate garden.
  3. (figurative) Excessively optimistic.
    • 2019 January 20, John Naughton, “‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism”, in The Guardian‎:
      Viewed from this perspective, the behaviour of the digital giants looks rather different from the roseate hallucinations of Wired magazine.

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roseate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of rosear combined with te
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