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look through rose-colored glasses

look through rose-colored glasses is the alternative form of wear rose-colored glasses.

Meaning of wear rose-colored glasses

Verb

wear rose-colored glasses (third-person singular simple present wears rose-colored glasses, present participle wearing rose-colored glasses, simple past wore rose-colored glasses, past participle worn rose-colored glasses)

  1. (idiomatic) To see the positive in things while being oblivious to the negative.

Forms of look through rose-colored glasses

third-person singular presentlooks through rose-colored glasses
present participle error-unknown-taglooking through rose-colored glasses
past participle error-unknown-taglooked through rose-colored glasses
past error-unknown-taglooked through rose-colored glasses

Questions about look through rose-colored glasses

What is look through rose-colored glasses the alternative form of?
Look through rose-colored glasses is the alternative form of wear rose-colored glasses.

Words near look through rose-colored glasses in the dictionary

  1. look snappy
  2. look the other way
  3. look the part
  4. look through
  5. look through one's fingers
  6. look through rose-colored glasses
  7. look through rose-tinted glasses
  8. look to
  9. look under rocks
  10. look up
  11. look up and down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: look through rose-colored glasses (page history and authors); wear rose-colored glasses (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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