SANGUINE

rubicund, ruddy, florid, sanguine

(adjective) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; “a ruddy complexion”; “Santa’s rubicund cheeks”; “a fresh and sanguine complexion”

sanguine, sanguineous

(adjective) confidently optimistic and cheerful

sanguine

(noun) a blood-red color

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

sanguine (comparative more sanguine, superlative most sanguine)

(literary) Having the colour of blood; blood red. [from late 14th c.]

(obsolete, physiology) Having a bodily constitution characterised by a preponderance of blood over the other bodily humours, thought to be marked by irresponsible mirth; indulgent in pleasure to the exclusion of important matters.

Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood.

Warm; ardent.

Anticipating the best; optimistic; confident; full of hope. [from early 16th c.]

Antonym: despondent

(archaic) Full of blood; bloody.

(archaic) Bloodthirsty.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with sanguinary.

Synonyms

• animated

• assured

• bright

• bullish

• buoyant

• ridibund

• cheerful

• cheery

• confident

• hopeful

• optimistic

• positive

• red

• spirited

• upbeat

• vivificated

Antonyms

• (optimistic): blue, gloomy, pessimistic

Noun

sanguine (plural sanguines)

Blood colour; red.

Anything of a blood-red colour, as cloth.

(tincture) A tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey).

Bloodstone.

Red crayon.

Verb

sanguine (third-person singular simple present sanguines, present participle sanguining, simple past and past participle sanguined)

To stain with blood; to impart the colour of blood to; to ensanguine.

Anagrams

• Guineans, guanines, uneasing

Source: Wiktionary

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San"guine, a. Etym: [F. sanguin, L. sanguineus, fr. sanguis blood. Cf. Sanguineous.]

1. Having the color of blood; red. Of his complexion he was sanguine. Chaucer. Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. Milton.

2. Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.

3. Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.

4. Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success.

Syn.

– Warm; ardent; lively; confident; hopeful.

San"guine, n.

1. Blood color; red. Spenser.

2. Anything of a blood-red, as cloth. [Obs.] In sanguine and in pes he clad was all. Chaucer.

3. (Min.)

Definition: Bloodstone.

4. Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.

San"guine, v. t.

Definition: To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.

San"guine, adv.

Definition: In a sanguine manner. I can not speculate quite so sanguinely as he does. Burke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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