ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Roseate

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈɹoʊzi.ət/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Roseate is an adjective meaning (formal, chiefly zoology) Like the rose flower; pink; rosy.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

  1. Full of roses.
  2. (figurative) Rosy; optimistic.

Example Sentences

The countess took the roseate palm and snowy fingers of this lovely child.
Nothing could have seemed more assured and roseate than her professional future.
Viewed from this perspective, the behaviour of the digital giants looks rather different from the roseate hallucinations of Wired magazine.
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.

Synonyms for roseate

Depending on context, synonyms include pink, pinkish, rosy, chromatic, rose, rosaceous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rose, rosaceous, colored, chromatic, gull, spoonbill.

Related Dictionary Tools

Sources & Attribution

FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.