Crossword clues for rosy
rosy
- Optimistically upbeat
- Like pink cheeks
- Like blushing cheeks
- Filled with promise
- Cheeky shade?
- Red, like Santa's cheeks
- Like flushed cheeks
- Hopeful, as outlooks go
- Flushed pink
- Far from bleak
- "Ring Around the ___"
- Word with cheeks or outlook
- Word with "cheeks" or "picture"
- Upbeat in outlook
- Upbeat and hopeful
- Reddish, like cheeks
- Pink (complexion)
- Optimistic, as one's future
- Opposite of hopeless
- Opposite of bleak
- Not at all bleak
- Like the dawn sky
- Like the cheeks of Santa Claus
- Like some futures or cheeks
- Like some cheeks in winter air
- Like positive outlooks
- Like Mr. Claus' cheeks
- Like flush cheeks
- Like cold cheeks
- Like cheeks in winter, perhaps
- Like apple-colored cheeks
- Like an optimistic outlook
- Like an optimist's point of view
- Like a promising future
- Like a positive outlook
- Like a Pollyanna's outlook
- Like a hopeful outlook
- Like a good outlook
- Like a cherub's cheeks
- Like a bright future
- Kind of future
- Having a healthy color
- Full of promise, future-wise
- Full of promise, as an outlook
- Flushed from the cold, perhaps
- Encouraging, in a way
- Bright (future)
- Auspicious, as one's future
- All aglow
- "___-fingered dawn"
- "___ fingered dawn"
- ''The Ghost of ___ Taylor''
- Looking up, as outlooks
- Optimistic, as an outlook
- Cheerful, as an outlook
- Pink, as cheeks
- Encouraging, as an outlook
- Like Santa's cheeks
- Word with cheeks or picture
- Like some outlooks
- Like some cheeks or futures
- Upbeat, as an outlook
- Pinkish
- Promising, as one's future
- Glowing
- Looking good
- Positive, as outlooks go
- "Dawn of the ___ fingers ...": The Odyssey
- Promising good things
- Having a positive outlook
- Dawnlike
- Like some cheeks and outlooks
- Flushed, as cheeks
- Blushing or flushing
- Apple-cheeked
- Blooming — hopeful
- Propitious
- Bright; optimistic
- Rubicund
- Ablush
- Promising success
- Like winter cheeks
- Sanguine
- Blushing or blooming
- Favorable, as an outlook
- Blooming red
- Peaches and cream
- Fine and dandy
- Reddish, as cheeks
- Over-optimistic, wordy, lacking power
- Promising; reddish-pink
- Pink; promising
- Blooming - hopeful
- Healthy appearance created at the flick of a switch?
- Having a reddish hue
- Full of promise, as one's future
- Like an optimist's outlook
- Overly optimistic
- Type of outlook
- Like Pollyanna's outlook
- Having a healthy glow
- Red, like some cheeks
- Promising, as a future
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rosy \Ros"y\, a. [Compar. Rosier; superl. Rosiest.] Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.
A smile that glowed
Celestial rosy-red, love's proper hue.
--Milton.
While blooming youth and gay delight
Sit thy rosy cheeks confessed.
--Prior.
Note: Rosy is sometimes used in the formation of self?xplaining compounde; as, rosy-bosomed, rosy-colored, rosy-crowned, rosy-fingered, rosy-tinted.
Rosy cross. See the Note under Rosicrucian, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., of a color, from rose (n.1) + -y (2), probably modeled on Old French rose. From 1590s of healthy complexions; 1775 in the sense "cheerful;" meaning "promising" is from 1887. Similar formation in Middle Dutch rosich, Dutch rozig, German rosig.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 rose-coloured. 2 Resembling rose, as in scent of perfume. 3 optimistic. Etymology 2
alt. (context slang British English) tea n. (context slang British English) tea
WordNet
adj. reflecting optimism; "a rosy future"; "looked at the world through rose-colored glasses" [syn: rose-colored]
having the pinkish flush of health [syn: flushed, rose-cheeked, rosy-cheeked]
blush colored; "blushful mists" [syn: blushful]
presaging good fortune; "she made a fortunate decision to go to medical school"; "rosy predictions" [syn: fortunate, hopeful]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "rosy".
He was an artist, who first softened your face with hot cloths, then covered it with emollient creams, smoothed it, freed it of every impurity, and finally covered the wrinkles with cosmetics, lightly treating the eyes with bistre, making the lips delicately rosy, depilating the ears, to say nothing of what he did to the chin and the head.
In the center of the clearing, in the full light of the warm morning sun, women and children knee-deep in grass gathered armfuls of yellow everlasting daisies, perfumed boronia, and rosy heath-myrtle, pushing the stems deep into the damp moss with which they had lined their baskets.
Victor and Colney had been champion duellists for the rosy and the saturnine since the former cheerfully slaved for a small stipend in the City of his affection, and the latter entered on an inheritance counted in niggard hundreds, that withdrew a briefless barrister disposed for scholarship from the forlornest of seats in the Courts.
There was affectation and sentimentality about his work, a prettiness of face, rosy flesh tints, and a general lightness of color, but he was a superior brushman, a good colorist, and, at times, a man of earnestness and power.
In the rosy glow of die evening sunset, I si unobserved in the Shadows of a great arch overt Ijgnd watched Jory again dancing with Melodic in the huge foyer.
The palace stood there, silhouetted against the rosy, pearlescent morning sky.
It was no fist at all, more like a meat ball, two little meat balls, two rosy pompons swinging from abbreviated arms.
He ate a capital dinner at the end of his first day at Porth and took rosy views.
Renee had no trouble disliking Dick Rosier, though she hardly knew him.
The difference was, Gabe Rosier had had one parent who did love him, unless Renee missed her guess.
Les and Gabe Rosier as teenagers still, looking about like they had in that mug shot taken fourteen years ago.
Gabe Rosier had to run away from home before he graduated from high school?
She almost shuddered, picturing Dick Rosier, square-jawed westerner whose wife quivered into silence at a look from him.
Blunt-featured face flushed with anger, Dick Rosier loomed in the arched opening to the living room.
She hoped it held long enough for her to drive out to the Rosier ranch and make it back.