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rose-tint

rose-tint verb: to look through rose-tinted glasses at; to view or describe as better than it actually is or was.

Verb (1)

rose-tint (third-person singular simple present rose-tints, present participle rose-tinting, simple past and past participle rose-tinted)

  1. (idiomatic) To look through rose-tinted glasses at; to view or describe as better than it actually is or was.
    • James thought in silence for a bit. He considering making something up, or rose-tinting the truth.2016, Ellie Rose McKee, Wake: Poetry and Short Stories, →ISBN, page 16
    • The future is often varnished, and that may be expected, but rose-tinting the present may be equally commonplace.2016, Richard Bolden, Morgen Witzel, Nigel Linacre, Leadership Paradoxes: Rethinking Leadership for an Uncertain World, →ISBN

Verb (2)

rose-tint (third-person singular simple present rose-tints, present participle rose-tinting, simple past and past participle rose-tinted)

  1. To tint with the color rose; to suffuse with a rosy hue.
    • But not for the sun-burst on high, And not for the rose-tinting ray, But for something far holier, I Will bless the sweet coming of May.1838, Frances Sargent Osgood, A wreath of wild flowers from New England, page 250
    • Rose on the Monday eventful, old Sol, in his splendour of Autumn, Softly rose-tinting the baréd limbs of the lime and the sturdy Old oak conquer'd at last; rose-tinting the weeping willows, Drooping their amber leaves to the bank of the swollen river.1863, The Eagle: A Magazine - Volumes 3-4, page 53

Forms of rose-tint

third-person singular presentrose-tints
present participlerose-tinting
past participlerose-tinted
pastrose-tinted

Origin of rose-tint

Back formation from look through rose-tinted glasses

Questions about rose-tint

What does rose-tint mean?
Rose-tint means to look through rose-tinted glasses at; to view or describe as better than it actually is or was.
What part of speech is rose-tint?
Rose-tint is a verb.
What is the past tense of rose-tint?
The past tense of rose-tint is rose-tinted.

Words near rose-tint in the dictionary

  1. rose-pink
  2. rose-pipe
  3. rose-pipes
  4. rose-ringed parakeet
  5. rose-ringed parakeets
  6. rose-tint
  7. rose-tinted
  8. rose-tinted glasses
  9. rose-tinted spectacles
  10. rose-tinting
  11. rose-tints

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