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| 1. | tinged with rose; rosy: a roseate dawn. |
| 2. | bright or promising: a roseate future. |
| 3. | incautiously optimistic: a roseate forecast for holiday sales. |
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roseate
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adj.
[From Latin roseus, rosy, from rosa, rose.] ro'se·ate·ly adv. |
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| roseate | |
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| of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn" [syn: rose] |
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Roseate
Ro"se*ate\, a. [Cf. L. roseus, rosatus, prepared from roses. See Roseal, Rose.]1. Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers. 2. resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming; as, roseate beauty; her roseate lips. Roseate tern (Zo["o]l.), an American and European tern (Sterna Dougalli) whose breast is roseate in the breeding season.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
roseate
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