Word of the Day for Wednesday July 31, 2002:
roseate \ROH-zee-it; -ayt\, adjective:
1. Overly optimistic; bright or cheerful.
2. Resembling a rose especially in color.
That roseate view was shattered when the North last week
detained a South Korean housewife, on a Kumkang tour with
her six-year-old son, on a bizarre pretext.
--Donald Kirk, "Sunshine in a Storm," [1]Time, July 5, 1999
The roseate future of so many highly rated blue-chip stocks
has been based on that dream.
--David C. Roche, "Iceberg Dead Ahead," [2]Time, September
14, 1998
Instead of being witnesses to a comical disjunction between
roseate myth and gritty reality, these people were stage
extras in a masquerade, whereby the Gracious Speech was
converted from a government statement into an election
address.
--Hugo Young, "The farcical state opening of the election
campaign," [3]Guardian, December 7, 2000
"The lass with the roseate cheeks" had already resolved
that, if she married anyone, it would be "the lad with the
rubicund hair."
--Ari Hoogenboom, [4]Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and
President
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Roseate comes from Latin roseus, "rosy," from rosa, "rose." |
