Synonyms of roseate

roseate

adjective

ˈrō-zē-ət 

as in promising

having qualities which inspire hope

one analyst who envisions a qualifiedly roseate future for the nation's automotive industry

Synonyms & Similar Words

• promising
• bright
• optimistic
• rosy
• golden
• rose-colored
• propitious
• hopeful
• auspicious
• encouraging
• likely
• upbeat
• heartening
• fair
• positive
• favorable
• reassuring
• soothing
• comforting
• good
• doubtless
• confident
• decisive
• assured
• sure
• cheering
• bullish
• unhesitating
• beamish
• eupeptic

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dark
• gloomy
• bleak
• pessimistic
• unlikely
• desperate
• dismal
• hopeless
• depressing
• dreary
• discouraging
• unpromising
• cheerless
• inauspicious
• disheartening
• uncertain
• unpropitious
• doubtful
• comfortless
• negative
• downbeat
• gray
• dubious
• grim
• unfavorable
• unencouraging
• bearish
• glum
• wretched
• funereal
• miserable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of roseate

Carnivores also include reptiles like the Burmese python and the gharial, birds like vultures and roseate spoonbills, and some cuter mammals like otters and seals. — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 26 May 2022

Visitors can spot egrets, anhingas, ducks, eagles, hawks, vultures, gallinules, osprey, blackbirds, roseate spoonbills, woodpeckers and more. — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2021

These ringing blue skies, these wide roseate plains, these great, windy sweeps of land exist nowhere else. — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021

From Georges Island in Boston Harbor, sightings included flyby eight great shearwaters, a Cory’s shearwater, 16 Wilson’s storm-petrels, a whimbrel, a Forster’s tern, 12 roseate terns, and two cliff swallows. — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021

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