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rosy ()

adjective rosi·er, rosi·est

  1. like a rose, esp. in color; rose-red or pink; often, blushing or flushed with a healthy, blooming red rosy cheeks
  2. Archaic made or consisting of, or adorned with, roses
  3. bright, promising, cheerful, etc. a rosy future

Etymology: ME

rosy Synonyms

rosy

modif.

  1. Rose-colored

    deep pink, pale cardinal, roseate; see blushing, pink, red, rose.

  2. Promising

    bright, pleasing, alluring, optimistic, favorable, cheerful, glowing; see also hopeful 2.

rosy 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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