roseate

Adjective

roseate (comparative more roseate, superlative most roseate)

1. (formal) Like the rose flower; pink; rosy.
   • The countess took the roseate palm and snowy fingers of this lovely child.1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC
   • Now the rum, as has been said, was criminally overproof, and they had had no intoxicants for a long time. And so a couple of stiff drinks produced a beautiful and generous expansion of soul. The mean cabin became larger, the fire warmer and more cheerful, and life generally of a more roseate hue....1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate

   Synonyms:

   pink, pinkish, rosy

2. Full of roses.
   • To fund the purchase, he had to sell a late Renoir, The Judgment of Paris, with its depiction of weighty ladies frolicking in a roseate garden.2018, Thom Nickels, Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters behind the Walls
3. (figuratively) Rosy; optimistic.
   • Nothing could have seemed more assured and roseate than her professional future.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
   • Viewed from this perspective, the behaviour of the digital giants looks rather different from the roseate hallucinations of Wired magazine.2019 January 20, John Naughton, “‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism”, in The Guardian