roseate

English

Etymology

From Middle English roseat, from Anglo-Latin roseātus, equivalent to rose +‎ -ate (“like, similar to”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊzi.ət/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊzɪət/

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Adjective

roseate (comparative more roseate, superlative most roseate)

1. (formal, chiefly zoology) Like the rose flower; pink; rosy.

   Synonyms: pink, pinkish, rosy

   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     The countess took the roseate palm and snowy fingers of this lovely child.

   • 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:

     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. They began to feel the prodigal Thanksgiving spirit, and to regret their limited opportunities for satisfying it.

   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:

     On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.

2. Full of roses.
   • 2018, Thom Nickels, Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters behind the Walls:

     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.

3. (figurative) Excessively optimistic.
   • 2019 January 20, John Naughton, “‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Viewed from this perspective, the behaviour of the digital giants looks rather different from the roseate hallucinations of Wired magazine.

Derived terms

• roseate spoonbill
• roseate tern

Translations

(formal) pink; rosy

• Bulgarian: розов (bg) (rozov)
• French: rosâtre (fr)
• Ido: rozatra

Anagrams

• roastee, tea rose

Spanish

Verb

roseate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of rosear combined with te