rosify
UK/ˈɹəʊzɪfaɪ/
rosify verb: to view or portray in a rosy manner; to romanticize.
Verb
rosify (third-person singular simple present rosifies, present participle rosifying, simple past and past participle rosified)
- To view or portray in a rosy manner; to romanticize.
- Have you heard my new name for your habit of mind? Rosification. Rather good, eh? And you can rosify anything from Lucretia Borgia to cold mutton.1919, Compton Mackenzie, Poor Relations, London: Macdonald & Co., published 1949, page 103
- For nothing should ever be vague, woolly, romanticised or slurred over in her work, vowed Laura; nothing sentimental, nothing that pretended to be something which was not, or concealed that which was; it was easy to gain a striking effect by exaggerating, falsifying, rosifying, but she scorned such...1938, Phyllis Bentley, Sleep in Peace, New York: Macmillan, page 252
Forms of rosify
| third-person singular present | rosifies |
|---|---|
| present participle | rosifying |
| past participle | rosified |
| past | rosified |
Origin of rosify
From rosy + -ify.
Questions about rosify
- What does rosify mean?
- Rosify means to view or portray in a rosy manner; to romanticize.
- What part of speech is rosify?
- Rosify is a verb.
- How do you pronounce rosify?
- Rosify is pronounced /ˈɹəʊzɪfaɪ/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of rosify?
- The past tense of rosify is rosified.
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