roseate

rose +‎ -ate (“like, similar to”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊzi.ət/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊzɪət/

roseate (comparative more roseate, superlative most roseate)

1. Like the rose flower; pink; rosy.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 7

     The countess took the roseate palm and snowy fingers of this lovely child.

   • 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate

     Now the rum, as has been said, was criminally overproof, and they had had no intoxicants for a long time. And so a couple of stiff drinks produced a beautiful and generous expansion of soul. The mean cabin became larger, the fire warmer and more cheerful, and life generally of a more roseate hue. They began to feel the prodigal Thanksgiving spirit, and to regret their limited opportunities for satisfying it.

A formal term, primarily used in animal names, and not known or used in common speech. Casual equivalents are pink, rosy, pinkish, and the like.

• roastee, tea rose