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roseate

adjective/ˈɹəʊzɪət/

What It Means

Like the rose flower; pink; rosy.

Full of roses.

Rosy; optimistic.

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Roseate in Context

“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

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From Middle English roseat, from Anglo-Latin roseātus, equivalent to rose + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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