rosy

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: ros=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

rosy, a. 

 Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.  [1913 Webster]
" Rosy is sometimes used in the formation of selfrosy-bosomed, rosy-colored, rosy-crowned, rosy-fingered, rosy-tinted."  [1913 Webster]
"A smile that glowed
Celestial rosy-red, love's proper hue."  [1913 Webster]
"While blooming youth and gay delight
Sit thy rosy cheeks confessed."  [1913 Webster]

Rosy cross. See the Note under Rosicrucian, n.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rosy, adj. (rosier, rosiest)
1 coloured like a pink or red rose (esp. of the complexion as indicating good health, of a blush, wine, the sky, light, etc.).
2 optimistic, hopeful, cheerful (a rosy future; a rosy attitude to life).

Derivative

rosily adv. rosiness n.

THESAURUS

rosy

Leibnizian, auspicious, balmy, beaming, blithe, blithesome, blooming, blossoming, blowzed, blowzy, blushing, booming, bright, bright and sunny, burnt, cerise, cheerful, cheery, cherry, chiliastic, clear, coral, couleur de rose, elated, encouraging, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, exuberant, fair, fat, favorable, florid, flourishing, flowering, flush, flushed, fresh, fresh as April, fruiting, full-blooded, genial, glad, gladsome, glowing, going strong, green, halcyon, happy, hectic, high, hopeful, in full swing, in good case, in good spirits, in high spirits, incarnadine, irrepressible, laughing, likely, millenarian, millennialistic, of good cheer, optimistic, palmy, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, pink, pinkish, pinky, piping, pleasant, primrose, promising, prospering, radiant, red, red-complexioned, red-faced, red-fleshed, reddish, riant, rose, rose-colored, rose-hued, rose-red, roseate, rosy-cheeked, rubicund, ruby, ruddy, ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced, salmon, sanguine, sanguineous, sleek, smiling, sparkling, sunburned, sunny, thriving, upbeat, utopian, vigorous, winsome, youthful

ROGET THESAURUS

rosy

Beauty

N beauty, the beautiful, to kalon, le beau ideal, aesthetics, callaesthetics, pulchritude, form, elegance, grace, beauty unadorned, natural beauty, symmetry, comeliness, fairness, polish, gloss, good effect, good looks, belle tournure, trigness, bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence, sublimity, sublimification, concinnity, delicacy, refinement, charm, je ne sais quoi, style, Venus, Aphrodite, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo, Hyperion, Adonis, Antionous, Narcissus, peacock, butterfly, garden, flower of, pink of, bijou, jewel, work of art, flower, flow'ret gay, wildflower, rose, lily, anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus, rhododendron, windflower, pleasurableness, beautifying, landscaping, landscape gardening, decoration, calisthenics, beauty, hunk (of men), beautiful, beauteous, handsome, gorgeous, pretty, lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing, attractive, delicate, dainty, refined, fair, personable, comely, seemly, bonny, good-looking, well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well- proportioned, proper, shapely, symmetrical, harmonious, sightly, fit to be seen, passable, not amiss, goodly, dapper, tight, jimp, gimp, janty, jaunty, trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy, neat, spruce, smart, tricksy, bright, bright eyed, rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked, rosy, ruddy, blooming, in full bloom, brilliant, shining, beamy, beaming, sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing, glossy, sleek, rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious, artistic, artistical, aesthetic, picturesque, pictorial, fait a peindre, well-composed, well grouped, well varied, curious, enchanting becoming, ornamental, undeformed, undefaced, unspotted, spotless, auxilium non leve vultus habet, beauty born of murmuring sound, flowers preach to us if we will hear, gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus, none but the brave deserve the fair, thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty.

Redness

N redness, red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, rose du Barry, magenta, damask, purple, flesh color, flesh tint, color, fresh color, high color, warmth, gules, ruby, carbuncle, rose, rust, iron mold, cinnabar, cochineal, fuchsine, ruddle, madder, Indian red, light red, Venetian red, red ink, annotto, annatto, realgar, minium, red lead, redness, rubescence, rubicundity, rubification, erubescence, blush, red, reddish, rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine, rosy, roseate, blowzy, blowed, burnt, rubicund, rubiform, lurid, stammell blood red, russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious, rubineous, rubricate, rubricose, rufulous, rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored, brick-colored, dust-colored, blushing, erubescent, reddened, red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red as a lobster, warm, hot, foxy.