Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
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
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
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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