sanguine

Meanings

Adjective

• Having the colour of blood; blood red.
• 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.
• Full of blood; bloody.
• Bloodthirsty.

Noun

• Blood colour; red.
• Anything of a blood-red colour, as cloth.
• A tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey).
• Bloodstone.
• Red crayon.

Verb

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

Related

Similar words

• animated
• assured
• bright
• bullish
• buoyant
• ridibund
• cheerful
• cheery
• confident
• hopeful
• optimistic
• positive
• red
• spirited
• upbeat
• vivificated

Opposite words

• blue, gloomy, pessimistic

Origin

• From Middle English sanguine, from Old French sanguin, ultimately from Latin sanguineus, from sanguis, of uncertain origin, perhaps Proto-Indo-European *h₁sh₂-én-, from *h₁ésh₂r̥. sanguineous.