rose-tinted
- adjective
- /roʊz ˈtɪntɪd/
- His view of the future was rose-tinted, believing that everything would turn out perfectly.
- rose-tinted glasses
And if your brain is failing at integrating bad news about the future, you will constantly leave your rose tinted spectacles on.
- And if your brain is failing at integrating bad news about the future, you will constantly leave your rose tinted spectacles on.
Examples
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She looked beautiful in her rose-tinted dress, which brightened up the entire room.
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Perhaps most importantly, they threw away their rose-tinted glasses.
Academic text (2008) -
So before you tell me to take off my blinders, I challenge you to take off your rose-tinted glasses!
Blog text (2) -
These were large drinks in rose-tinted highball glasses.
Fiction book (2002) -
She's wearing a pink bandanna tied around her head and rose-tinted sunglasses.
Fiction book (1994) -
I wore patchwork bell-bottom jeans and rose-tinted spectacles.
Blog text (21) -
So often we, in Europe, have a rose-tinted impression of that soaring country, and it is good that the reality can be so well expressed in your books, The Wire, and that recent documentary, The Interrupters.
Blog text (5) -
The director's at his best here, the camera weaving through a hive of activity so deftly you can almost forgive the rose-tinted nostalgia.
Blog text (1) -
The artist chose a rose-tinted hue for the sunset painting, giving it a warm and soft atmosphere.
Synonyms
A light red color often seen in flowers or clothes
A pink or light red color that shows good health
A light red color that looks slightly pale
A light red color like a rose
A light pink color like that of a rose
A thing that has a small amount of pink in its color
A pink color that looks a little red
Having a slight pink colour like a rose
Having a soft pink color like a pale rose
Having a light pink or rosy color
Having a pink or light red color like the flower rose
Having a pale pink color like flower petals
A soft pink color like a rose petal
Having a pale, dusty pink color like some roses
Having a red or pink color
A soft pink colour mixed with grey
A soft greyish-pink colour like faded rose petals
Antonyms
How Pink
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rose-tinted is made of rose, the flower and its pink color, and tinted, from tint which means 'a small amount of color'. So, Rose-tinted means 'slightly pink', like the light at sunset or a pair of glasses that give a soft pink glow.