Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (formal, chiefly zoology) Like the rose flower; pink; rosy.
2. Full of roses.
3. (figurative) Rosy; optimistic.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• more roseate
• most roseate

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When Should You Use Roseate?

Use roseate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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