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sanguine
[ sang-gwin ]
adjective
- cheerfully optimistic, sometimes to the point of seeming complacent, oblivious, or naive:
a sanguine disposition;
sanguine expectations.
Synonyms: positive, optimistic, hopeful, confident, cheerful, buoyant, assured
Antonyms: morose
a sanguine complexion.
- (in old physiology) having blood as the predominating humor and consequently being ruddy-faced, cheerful, etc.
- Heraldry. a reddish-purple tincture.
noun
- a red iron-oxide crayon used in making drawings.
sanguine
/ ˈsæŋɡwɪn /
adjective
- cheerful and confident; optimistic
- (esp of the complexion) ruddy in appearance
- blood-red
- an obsolete word for sanguinary
noun
- Also calledred chalk a red pencil containing ferric oxide, used in drawing
Derived Forms
- ˈsanguinely, adverb
- ˈsanguineness, noun
Other Words From
- san·guine·ly adverb
- san·guin·i·ty [sang-, gwin, -i-tee], san·guin·ness noun
- non·san·guine adjective
- non·san·guine·ly adverb
- non·san·guine·ness noun
- o·ver·san·guine adjective
- o·ver·san·guine·ly adverb
- o·ver·san·guine·ness noun
- pre·san·guine adjective
- qua·si-san·guine adjective
- qua·si-san·guine·ly adverb
- su·per·san·guine adjective
- su·per·san·guin·i·ty noun
- un·san·guine adjective
- un·san·guine·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of sanguine1
Example Sentences
The experience left them sanguine about the sometimes vitriolic opinions of strangers on the Internet.
She is equally desirous of Levine, as animalistic and eager to consume him while sticky with sanguine fluid.
That said, I am not as sanguine about the future of the U.S.-Egypt bilateral relationship.
These days, seven years after his book was published, Thomas is a bit more sanguine about his early life.
A senior government minister in Kabul is more sanguine about the possibility of eventually restarting peace talks.
I leave Italy with a less sanguine hope of her speedy liberation than I brought into it.
But I feel sanguine in the spirit of the men; sanguine in my own spirit; sanguine in the soundness of my scheme.
Parliament is often more easily persuaded than the shrewd investor, as many a too sanguine promoter knows.
This fearful war was a deathblow to your father's sanguine hopes of making a rapid fortune.
I really believe that is a good story, Jess, said her mother, who was sanguine of temperament.
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