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rosy-eyed

rosy-eyed adjective: optimistic; idealistic.

Adjective

rosy-eyed (comparative more rosy-eyed, superlative most rosy-eyed)

  1. Optimistic; idealistic.
    • A rosy-eyed optimist
    • Heubeck concludes: "It's not because of some rosy-eyed view of what railways used to be like, and we are only wanting to reopen it because there used to be one. It's because the railway would make a practical difference to the prospects of people not yet born and young people here today in this...2025 April 30, Andy Comfort, “£10 million closer to Carlisle”, in RAIL, number 1034, page 43

Forms of rosy-eyed

comparativemore rosy-eyed
superlativemost rosy-eyed

Questions about rosy-eyed

What does rosy-eyed mean?
Rosy-eyed means optimistic; idealistic.
What part of speech is rosy-eyed?
Rosy-eyed is an adjective.

Words near rosy-eyed in the dictionary

  1. rosy thrush-tanager
  2. rosy thrush-tanagers
  3. rosy wave
  4. rosy waves
  5. rosy-cheeked
  6. rosy-eyed
  7. rosy-lipped batfish
  8. rosy-red
  9. rosy-red minnow
  10. rosy-red minnows
  11. rosybells

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