rose-colored
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- adjective
- /ˈroʊzˌkʌlɚd/
- Informal
- She always views her future plans through rose-colored glasses, believing everything will work out perfectly.
- wearing rose-colored glasses
- world through rose-colored
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- I mean, we, we, we would describe it as rose colored glasses.
- But I don't know, I don't know, maybe, maybe just maybe Kevin has rose colored glasses on.
- I read somewhere that when you're wearing rose colored glasses, all the red flags looks just like flags.
- And you look back on that with with the not just rose colored glasses, but but the dark pink.
Examples
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It's easy to imagine how amazing other people's lives are while looking through the rose-colored glasses of a blog.
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Is that reality or the rose-colored glasses view of liberal hopefulness?
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I guess I just need a new pair of rose-colored glasses!
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Take those rose-colored glasses off!
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Take off those rose-colored glasses, you Homer, and look at the facts.
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We can see life through the rose-colored glasses of the healthy mental and emotional condition that depends to a great extent on our physical being.
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You see, I don't wear rose-colored glasses.
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We often look at the past through halcyon or rose-colored glasses, thinking the past was more kind and gentle than it is now.
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I can't idealize anyone, can't see anyone through rose-colored glasses the way you can.
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There have been many instances in the past few months where I have questioned my own intelligence as I began to realize how I was seeing everything through the rose-colored glasses of ignorance and naivety.
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Synonyms
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Feeling cheerful and hopeful, sometimes too positive for the situation
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Expecting good things in the future
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Cheerful and hopeful in a difficult situation
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Seeing the good side of things
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Being too hopeful and not seeing real problems
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Being very hopeful even when things seem bad
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Being too hopeful about things and not seeing clear problems
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Very optimistic in a way that ignores real problems
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Too cheerful in a way that feels forced or annoying
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How Optimistic
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Etymology
Rose-colored comes from the image of 'rose-colored glasses' that make everything look pink and nicer, so to see things in a rose-colored way is to view them in an unrealistically positive or 'too hopeful' way.