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rosy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of rosy

1 having a healthy reddish skin tone

rosy and cheerful after a day outside in the snow

Synonyms of rosy

blooming, florid, flush, full-blooded, glowing, red, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine

Words Related to rosy

bronzed, brown, suntanned, tanned

bloomy, blowsy (also blowzy), blushing, flushed, pink, pinkish, warm

Near Antonyms of rosy

blanched, white, whitened

anemic, sick, sickly

bloodless, cadaverous

whey-faced, white-faced

Antonyms of rosy

ashen, ashy, doughy, livid, lurid, mealy, pale, paled, palish, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, sallow, sallowish, wan

2 having qualities which inspire hope

thatʼs a particularly rosy view of the economic situation, and one that may not be justified

Synonyms of rosy

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, upbeat

Words Related to rosy

cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing

assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating

beamish, bullish, eupeptic

favorable, good

Near Antonyms of rosy

cheerless, comfortless

doubtful, dubious, uncertain

bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable

funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretched

Antonyms of rosy

bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious

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