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rose-colored lenses

rose-colored lenses is the alternative form of rose-colored glasses.

Meaning of rose-colored glasses

Noun

rose-colored glasses pl (plural only)

  1. (US, idiomatic, plural, plural-only) A cognitive or perceptual bias where an individual views something in an overly optimistic or positive light, often failing to recognize its negative aspects.
    • Such captivating beauty corresponds to our protagonist’s naive idealism, and the rose-colored glasses through which he views an upper-crust world of dandies and refined intellectuals.2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club
  2. (US, plural, plural-only) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rose-colored, glasses.

Questions about rose-colored lenses

What is rose-colored lenses the alternative form of?
Rose-colored lenses is the alternative form of rose-colored glasses.

Words near rose-colored lenses in the dictionary

  1. rose-breasted grosbeak
  2. rose-breasted grosbeaks
  3. rose-bud
  4. rose-colored
  5. rose-colored glasses
  6. rose-colored lenses
  7. rose-colored pastor
  8. rose-colored pastors
  9. rose-colored spectacles
  10. rose-colored starling
  11. rose-colored starlings

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