The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rose-colored \Rose"-col`ored\, a.
Having the color of a pink rose; rose-pink; of a delicate pink color.
Uncommonly beautiful; hence, extravagantly fine or pleasing; alluring; as, rose-colored anticipations.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"optimistic," 1854, from rose (n.1) on the notion of "something uncommonly beautiful."
Wiktionary
a. (context US English) (alternative spelling of rose-coloured English)
WordNet
adj. reflecting optimism; "a rosy future"; "looked at the world through rose-colored glasses" [syn: rosy]
Usage examples of "rose-colored".
There were knickknacks here and there, a little china dog, a rose-colored goblet, more brass in a whimsical study of a lion.
Iranika said in her gravelly mental voice, rose-colored spy-eye bobbing with her efforts to keep it steady.
She eyed the gorgeous silhouette, evidently contrasting her own disheveled costume unfavorably with the rose-colored gauze and satin of the Lady.
A great glowing rose-colored form went soaring over her head toward the center of the tumult—then another that shone green and white.