rosy
rosy
Definition
rosy (rō′zē)
adjective ros′i·er, ros′i·est
- like a rose, esp. in color; rose-red or pink; often, blushing or flushed with a healthy, blooming red rosy cheeks
- Archaic made or consisting of, or adorned with, roses
- bright, promising, cheerful, etc. a rosy future
Etymology: ME
rosy
Synonyms
rosy
modif.
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Usage Examples
Preposition: on
- front: So everything is rosy on the home front, or so it seems.
Modifies a noun
- cheek: A soft wet kiss of my rosy cheek, my pain is starting to show.
- glow: The street was lit in a rosy glow, the air was full of smoke.
- periwinkle: The rosy periwinkle, meanwhile, yields drugs which help treat diabetes.
- hue: With the rosy hue of hindsight, once the contract was signed the actual project was quite straightforward.
- lip: Love's not time's fool, tho rosy lips and cheeks I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
- dawn: Continuing, he said: " Longing is like the rosy dawn.
Modifying Another Word
- unrealistically: To more than work is for unrealistically rosy picture in the last.
- slightly: When balanced, your skin has a beautiful, slightly rosy or golden glow, as if illuminated from within.
- too: Oh dear, things don't look too rosy for us, do they?
- so: Things didn't seem quite so rosy before the event tho.
- all: You know things aren't all rosy for these kids.
- very: Thus, things looked very rosy for the future of UCI.
Used with adjective complement
- look: Thus, things looked very rosy for the future of UCI.
- seem: In early 1776, however, the Forster future seemed rosy.
- paint: It would be wrong, however, to paint too rosy a picture of the benefits derived from these key agricultural products.
- become: No one should have the illusion that everything will all of a sudden become rosy.
- remain: Despite the mixed record of such on-line business so far, experts remain confident that future prospects of ' e-commerce ' remain rosy.
Preposition: in
- garden: In terms of results, everything looks rosy in the garden of NEC Harlequins.
Preposition: for
- future: Thus, things looked very rosy for the future of UCI.
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