adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a glowing/rosy/pink complexion (= healthy and pink – used about women or children )
a rosy picture (= giving the impression that something is or will be good )
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That figure paints a misleadingly rosy picture.
paint a grim/rosy/gloomy picture of sb/sth
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Dickens painted a grim picture of Victorian life.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
less
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Durkheim, by contrast, maintained a considerably less rosy picture of how social life used to be.
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In other places, the picture was less rosy .
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Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago.
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There will be dot.com casualties and job layoffs, and tech stocks will look less rosy .
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For the data base user, however, life is less rosy .
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I quickly learned that there was another, less rosy , dimension to being back home.
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The market may look less rosy than it did 18 months ago but the long-term prospects are healthy.
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The ranks of the discontented were also swelled by returning soldiers who found things less rosy than they had hoped.
so
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But, despite restructuring, things weren't so rosy at the manufacturing division.
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The true profit picture is not so rosy .
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The prospects for his movement, however, were not so rosy .
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McWilliams may have plenty of options, but things don't look so rosy for his team-mate Harada.
■ NOUN
cheek
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Billy Brown had rosy cheeks , blue eyes and smiled all the time.
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Carefully paint eyes, a nose, a mouth and rosy cheeks on to the pixie's face.
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Her own rosy cheeks were so countrified.
glow
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I was on my way home, bathed in a rosy glow .
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Not since the surprise smash hit of the year cast a rosy glow over Shore's vehicle.
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In its rosy glow , Sara, still lying on the floor, saw Matthew.
picture
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Durkheim, by contrast, maintained a considerably less rosy picture of how social life used to be.
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But this is not the rosy picture it first appears.
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And that figure paints a misleadingly rosy picture .
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He did paint a kind of rosy picture , didn't he?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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rosy cheeks
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a rosy financial report
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Things were looking less rosy all of a sudden.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And that figure paints a misleadingly rosy picture.
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In fact, from then on the rest of the evening seemed to be bathed in a glorious, rosy light.
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Private economists counter that the rosy statistics hide serious problems.
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She looked like a virgin who cleaned her teeth after every meal and delighted to take great bites from rosy apples.
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Thanks to Douglas, her future was rosy .
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The rosy outlook for equity prices over the near-term meshes with my bullish forecast for 30-year Treasury bonds.
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The smells were wrong, and the thin rosy sunlight, and how the men seemed wrapped inside them-selves.
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There will be dot.com casualties and job layoffs, and tech stocks will look less rosy .