rosy-eyed

English

Adjective

rosy-eyed (comparative more rosy-eyed, superlative most rosy-eyed)

  1. Optimistic; idealistic.
    A rosy-eyed optimist
    • 2025 April 30, Andy Comfort, “£10 million closer to Carlisle”, in RAIL, number 1034, page 43:
      Heubeck concludes: "It's not because of some rosy-eyed view of what railways used to be like, and we are only wanting to reopen it because there used to be one. It's because the railway would make a practical difference to the prospects of people not yet born and young people here today in this fantastic part of the country."
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