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rose-colored

rose-colored

2 5.6
A view that is too hopeful and ignores problems
  • adjective
  • /ˈroʊzˌkʌlɚd/
  • Informal
translation icon : optimista
  • She always views her future plans through rose-colored glasses, believing everything will work out perfectly.
  • wearing rose-colored glasses
  • world through rose-colored

I mean, we, we, we would describe it as rose colored glasses.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • 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.

    Blog text (3)

Synonyms

upbeat
vsrose-colored
99 3.8

Feeling cheerful and hopeful, sometimes too positive for the situation

is positive but more plainly hopeful than unrealistically idealistic
rosy
vsrose-colored
26 3.2

Expecting good things in the future

is more unrealistically optimistic rather than moderately hopeful
sanguine
vsrose-colored
10 7.4

Cheerful and hopeful in a difficult situation

is positive but less unrealistically hopeful, staying more grounded
starry-eyed
vsrose-colored
  • Informal
6 6.9

Being too hopeful and not seeing real problems

is unrealistically positive but less focused on dreamy idealism
glass-half-full
vsrose-colored
  • Informal
3 5.8

Seeing the good side of things

is more unrealistically hopeful than a general optimistic attitude
Panglossian
vsrose-colored
  • Literature
1 9.9

Very optimistic in a way that ignores real problems

is optimistic but unrealistically positive rather than realistically balanced
Pollyannaish
vsrose-colored
9.9

Being too hopeful about things and not seeing clear problems

is equally positive but less naively trusting of problems
Pollyannish
vsrose-colored
9.9

Being very hopeful even when things seem bad

is similar but frames hope as unduly optimistic rather than simply constant
overbright
vsrose-colored
6.4

Too cheerful in a way that feels forced or annoying

is optimistic but not as annoyingly bright or unnatural

Antonyms

283 3.7

Having sensible ideas about what can be achieved

67 3.9

Expecting bad things to happen in the future

How Optimistic

naive
312 4.1
rose-colored
  • Informal
2 5.6
optimistic
426 3.2
realistic
65 4.1
pessimistic
67 3.9

Surface Forms

rose-colored positive
rose-coloured positive

Morphology

rose-colored = rose + color (semi-transparent) = rose + color + ed

The literal parts are clear, but the sense 'unduly optimistic' is a figurative/idiomatic extension (as in 'rose-colored glasses') and is not fully derivable from the components.

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.