- pink and pleasant in appearance
- She had rosy cheeks.
- The sky was turning rosy over the harbour.
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- likely to be good or successful synonym hopeful
- The future is looking very rosy for our company.
- She painted a rosy picture of their life together in Italy (= made it appear to be very good and perhaps better than it really was).
- You make everything sound very rosy.
Idioms
See rosy in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryeverything in the garden is rosy
- (British English, saying) everything is fine
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