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Word: sanguine (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Anticipating the best; optimistic; not despondent; confident; full of hope.
  • Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood.
  • Having the colour of blood; red.
  • 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.
  • Warm; ardent.

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Noun:

  • Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.
  • Blood colour; red.
  • Bloodstone.
  • Red crayon. See the Note under crayon, 1.

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Verb:

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

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