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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, blushing, flushed, pink, warm

Near Antonyms of rosy

blanched, white, whitened

anemic, sick, sickly

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

That's a particularly rosy view of the economic situation.

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

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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