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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rosy |
| Synonyms: | bright, cheerful, hopeful, optimistic, pink, promising, red |
zi| Main Entry: | hopeful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | promising, auspicious |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, arousing, beneficial, bright, cheerful, cheering, conducive, convenient, elating, encouraging, enlivening, exciting, expeditious, fair, favorable, fine, fit, flattering, fortifying, fortunate, golden, good, gracious, halcyon, heartening, helpful, inspiring, inspiriting, likely, lucky, opportune, pleasant, pleasing, probable, promiseful, propitious, providential, reasonable, reassuring, roseate, rosy, rousing, stirring, suitable, sunny, timely, uplifting, well-timed |
| Notes: | hopeful means having or inspiring hope; optimistic means expecting the best |
| Antonyms: | desperate, hopeless, inauspicious, pointless, unpromising, wretched |
| Main Entry: | pink |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rose color |
| Synonyms: | blush, coral, flush, fuchsia, rose, roseate, salmon |
| Main Entry: | promising |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeful |
| Synonyms: | able, assuring, auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, gifted, happy, likely, lucky, propitious, reassuring, rising, roseate, rosy, talented, up-and-coming |
| Antonyms: | hopeless, unpromising |
| Main Entry: | red |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | color of blood; shade resembling such a color |
| Synonyms: | bittersweet, bloodshot, blooming, blush, brick, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, cerise, cherry, chestnut, claret, copper, coral, crimson, dahlia, flaming, florid, flushed, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, glowing, healthy, inflamed, infrared, magenta, maroon, pink, puce, rose, roseate, rosy, rubicund, ruby, ruddy, rufescent, russet, rust, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, titian, vermilion, wine |
| Main Entry: | rosy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pink, reddish in color |
| Synonyms: | aflush, blooming, blushing, colored, coral, deep pink, fresh, glowing, healthy-looking, high-colored, incarnadine, pale red, peach, red, red-complexioned, red-faced, rose-colored, roseate, rubicund, ruddy |
| Antonyms: | pale |
| Main Entry: | rosy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheerful, hopeful |
| Synonyms: | alluring, auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, glowing, likely, optimistic, pleasing, promising, reassuring, rose-colored, roseate, sunny |
| Antonyms: | depressing, hopeless, sad |
| Main Entry: | ruddy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pinkish, blushing |
| Synonyms: | blooming, blowsy, bronzed, crimson, florid, flush, flushed, fresh, full-blooded, glowing, healthy, pink, red, red-complexioned, reddish, roseate, rosy, rubicund, ruby, sanguine, scarlet |
| Antonyms: | pale |
| Main Entry: | Panglossian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | optimistic |
| Synonyms: | Utopian, assured, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheering, confident, encouraged, expectant, happy, high*, hopeful, hoping, idealistic, keeping the faith, looking on the bright side, looking through rose-colored glasses, merry, on cloud nine, on top of world, positive, promising, ray of sunshine, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, sanguine, sunny*, trusting, upbeat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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