ROSE-COLORED GLASSES

Meaning of ROSE-COLORED GLASSES in English

a cheerful or optimistic view of things, usually without valid basis: He saw life through rose-colored glasses.

[ 1860-65 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

ROSE-COLORED GLASSES — noun plural Date: 1926 favorably disposed opinions ; optimistic eyes
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
ROSE-COLORED GLASSES — noun plural see rose-colored spectacles
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ROSE-COLORED GLASSES — optimism, tendency to see things in a positive manner
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
ROSE-COLORED GLASSES — Date: 1926 : favorably disposed opinions : optimistic eyes views the world through rose-colored glasses
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ROSE-COLORED GLASSES — Function: noun plural Date: 1926 : favorably disposed opinions : optimistic eyes <views the world through rose-colored glasses >
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
ROSE-COLORED GLASSES — [rose-colored glasses] n pl (1950): favorably disposed opinions: optimistic eyes "views the world through rose-colored glasses"
Merriam-Webster English vocab
ROSE-COLORED GLASSES — See: LOOK AT THE WORLD THROUGH ROSE-COLORED GLASSES.
Slang English vocab
ROSE-COLORED GLASSES — See: LOOK AT THE WORLD THROUGH ROSE-COLORED GLASSES.
Словарь английских идиом
ROSE-COLORED GLASSES — розовыйnочки
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
ROSE-COLORED GLASSES — розовыйnочки
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
GLASSES — antipara
English-Visayan vocabulary
COLORED — I. adjective Date: 14th century having color, 2. colorful , marked by exaggeration or bias, 3. of a race other …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
ROSE — I Any of about 100 species in the genus Rosa (family Rosaceae) characterized by their beautiful, fragrant flowers. Rosa species …
Английский словарь Британика
ROSE — I. Etymology: Middle English roos, rose, from Old English rās past of rise II. ˈrōz noun ( -s ) Etymology: …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
COLORED — I. ˈkələ(r)d adjective Etymology: Middle English coloured, from past participle of colouren to color — more at color 1. : …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ROSÉ — (ˈ)rō|zā noun ( -s ) Etymology: French, from rosé, adjective, pink, from Old French, from rose, n., rose, from Latin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GLASSES — plural of glass present third singular of glass
Webster's New International English Dictionary
COLORED — (a.) Of some other color than green.
Английский словарь Webster
COLORED — (a.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; …
Английский словарь Webster
COLORED — (a.) Of some other color than black or white.
Английский словарь Webster
COLORED — (a.) Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description.
Английский словарь Webster
COLORED — (a.) Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
Английский словарь Webster
COLORED — (imp. & p. p.) of Color
Английский словарь Webster
COLORED — ( imp. & p. p. ) of Color
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
COLORED — ( a. ) Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
COLORED — ( a. ) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
COLORED — ( a. ) Of some other color than green.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
COLORED — ( a. ) Of some other color than black or white.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
COLORED — ( a. ) Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
ROSE — rose 1 — roseless , adj. — roselike , adj. /rohz/ , n., adj., v., rosed, rosing . n. 1. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
COLORED — /kul"euhrd/ , adj. 1. having color. 2. Often Offensive. belonging wholly or in part to a race other than the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GLASSES — n. spectacles, set of lenses attached to a frame and used improve vision, eyeglasses
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
COLORED — adj. having color; colorful; painted a certain color; of or belonging to an ethnic group that is not classed as …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
COLORED — n. member of an ethnic group that is not classed as white (offensive); person who is racially mixed (offensive)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
ROSE — I. past of rise II. ˈrōz noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Latin rosa; akin to Greek rhodon …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
COLORED — I. ˈkə-lərd adjective Date: 14th century 1. : having color 2. a. : colorful b. : marked by exaggeration or …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ROSE — imp. of rise. 2. rose ·vt to perfume, as with roses. 3. rose ·impf of rise. 4. rose ·noun a …
Webster English vocab
COLORED — adj of some other color than green. 2. colored ·adj of some other color than black or white. 3. colored …
Webster English vocab
GLASSES — ■ plural noun a pair of lenses set in a frame that rests on the nose and ears, used to …
Concise Oxford English vocab
ROSE — [rose] past of rise [2]rose n [ME, fr. OE, fr. L rosa; akin to Gk rhodon rose, Per gul] (bef. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
COLORED — [col.ored] adj (14c) 1: having color 2. a: colorful b: marked by exaggeration or bias 3 a: of a race …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
ROSE — any perennial shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, an almost universally distributed group of some …
Britannica English vocabulary
ROSE — rose, Rose BrE AmE rəʊz AmE roʊz ▷ roses ˈrəʊz ɪz -əz AmE ˈroʊz əz ▶ ˈ rose ˌ garden …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
COLORED — colored BrE AmE ˈkʌl əd AmE \ - ə rd ▷ colored|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
ROSE — / rəʊz; NAmE roʊz/ noun , adjective —see also rise verb ■ noun 1. [ C ] a flower with …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
COLORED — ( NAmE ) = coloured
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ROSE — I. rose 1 /rəʊz $ roʊz/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ; Origin: Latin rosa ] 1 . …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
COLORED — I. col ‧ oured 1 BrE AmE British English , colored American English /ˈkʌləd $ -ərd/ adjective [ Word Family: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ROSE — n., adj., & v. --n. 1 any prickly bush or shrub of the genus Rosa, bearing usu. fragrant flowers generally …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ROSE — n., adj., & v. n. 1 any prickly bush or shrub of the genus Rosa, bearing usu. fragrant flowers generally …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ROSE — 1. n., adj., & v. --n. 1. any prickly bush or shrub of the genus Rosa, bearing usu. fragrant flowers …
Oxford English vocab
ROSE — ( roses) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Rose is the past …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ROSE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GLASSES — [plural] [noun]Glasses (also spectacles) are two small pieces of special glass or plastic in a frame worn in front of …
Cambridge English vocab
ROSE — n. Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie Lee Gypsy Rose Rose Louise Hovick Roman de la Rose Romance of …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
ROSE — n. Any of about 100 species in the genus Rosa (family Rosaceae) characterized by their beautiful, fragrant flowers. Rosa species …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
GLASSES — Synonyms and related words : Polaroid glasses, bifocals, blinkers, cheaters, colored glasses, contact lens, dark glasses, divided spectacles, eyeglass, eyeglasses, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
COLORED
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
GLASSES — See: LOOK AT THE WORLD THROUGH ROSE-COLORED GLASSES.
Slang English vocab
COLORED — n. parti colored rose colored rose colored spectacles
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
COLORED — n. Function: adjective Synonyms: BIASED 2, jaundiced, one-sided, partial, partisan, prejudiced, prepossessed, tendentious, unindifferent, warped
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
GLASSES — n. pl. Spectacles.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
GLASSES — noun
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
GLASSES — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ dark , tinted ▪ I wear blue-tinted ~ on sunny days. ▪ reading ▪ half-moon , round …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary

Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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