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    [Adjective]  | "rose-col*ored" | \ ˈrōz-ˌkə-lərd \


    1: having a rose color

    2: seeing or seen in a promising light : optimistic


    Origin: 1526 ;

    [Plural noun]  | "rose-colored glasses" 


    1: favorably disposed opinions : optimistic eyes


    Origin: 1844 ;

    [Adjective]  | "rose-colored" 


    1: having qualities which inspire hope;


      * e.g., " ... an incurable optimist sees the world through a rose-colored perspective "





     [ "rose colored glasses" ]

    1: Seeing the world or past events as only pleasant and happy.

      * e.g.,  ... You're looking at the past with rose colored glasses 

     [ "Rose colored life" ]

    1: It is the type of life that many desire but never went around it because they probably did so much to everyone but never to themselves until they find their true passions or the one whom they always thought everything they made to believe was asking too much.

      * e.g.,  ... Houtarou said, "Did you want rose colored life too?." Chitanda replied, "I admired those who did but never realized how much I needed and wanted." Houtarou responded, "I hope you have a rose colored life now." They both smiled. 

     [ "Rose colored glasses" ]

    1: Viewing others or yourself in a way that's too good to be true, too good to be reality.

      * e.g.,  ... The guy/girl had always worn rose colored glasses, and didn't see that he/she was as much of a hypocrite as everybody else, or that not everybody had to think the way he/she thought about the world, or life. 

     [ "Rose colored glasses" ]

    1: Seeing only the good in/best in everybody, or the positive, and not the whole picture.

      * e.g.,  ... Jim Jones seemed like a wonderful humanitarian looking to spread hope and egalitarian values like wildfire to the world when viewed through rose colored glasses, since you could ignore any of the things about someone that you didn't want to see, and deny any negative feelings you had about him the same way he would deny any negative feelings he had about anybody else. A guy that kills over 900 people is not without negative feelings, and is not a boundless optimist if you look at the whole person, and not just the positive things that look/sound nice. A guy like that seems like the real cynic, even if he's not outwardly a negative grouch. 

     [ "rose-colored glasses" ]

    1: you only see what you are focused on

      * e.g.,  ... once the rose-colored glasses came off she could see the whole picture 

     [ "Rose colored glasses" ]

    1: Not wanting to talk about something because it might upset you or somebody else.

      * e.g.,  ... If you always have on rose colored glasses, the other person isn't going to know what you really think about something, because it always sounds positive, and nobody always has positive thoughts in their head. 

     [ "Rose-Colored Glasses" ]

    1: When you are unaware of the situation around you because of how high you hold those around you;

      * e.g.,  ...  He didn’t see the blood he drew, he was wearing rose-colored glasses When you wear rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags. 

     [ "Through Rose Colored Glasses" ]

    1: A 2008 open-source novel. It's a work of science fiction by American author Andre Infante.

      * e.g.,  ... Man 1: Dude, I'm reading this novel online called Through Rose Colored Glasses. I can edit it too! 

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