roseate
/ˈɹoʊzi.ət/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.93 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "The countess took the roseate palm and snowy fingers of this lovely child."
- "Now the rum, as has been said, was criminally overproof, and they had had no intoxicants for a long time. And so a couple of stiff drinks produced a beautiful and generous expansion of soul. The mean cabin became larger, the fire warmer and more cheerful, and life generally of a more roseate hue. They began to feel the prodigal Thanksgiving spirit, and to regret their limited opportunities for satisfying it."
- "On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon."
- "To fund the purchase, he had to sell a late Renoir, The Judgment of Paris, with its depiction of weighty ladies frolicking in a roseate garden."
- "Nothing could have seemed more assured and roseate than her professional future."
- "Viewed from this perspective, the behaviour of the digital giants looks rather different from the roseate hallucinations of Wired magazine."
Etymology
From Middle English roseat, from Anglo-Latin roseātus, equivalent to rose + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: roseat, roseātus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹoʊzi.ət/
- British English: /ˈɹəʊzɪət/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more roseate (comparative)
most roseate (superlative)