Rosy vs Excellent - What's the difference?
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Rose-coloured.
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Resembling rose, as in scent of perfume.
Optimistic.
(slang, British) tea
Of the highest quality; splendid.
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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
Exceptionally good of its kind.
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*(David Hume) (1711-1776)
*:an excellent hypocrite
*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
*:Their sorrows are most excellent .
(obsolete) Excellently.
*, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:
Rosy is a related term of excellent.
As adjectives the difference between rosy and excellent
is that rosy is rose-coloured while excellent is of the highest quality; splendid.As a noun rosy
is (slang|british) tea.As an adverb excellent is
(obsolete) excellently.rosy
English
Etymology 1
FromAdjective
(er)- If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
Etymology 2
From Cockney rhyming slang, "Rosie Lee".Alternative forms
* Rosie (more common spelling, as per the etymology)Noun
(-)- I wish a cup of Rosy .
- I fancy a cup of rosy lee.
excellent
English
(wikipedia excellent)Adjective
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* excellence * excellently * excellentnessAdverb
(en adverb)- Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis , hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].