- san´guine|ly
- san|guine «SANG gwihn», adjective, noun.–adj.1. naturally cheerful and hopeful: »
a sanguine disposition. The invincible hopefulness of his sanguine temperament had now got Mr. Britling well out of the pessimistic pit again (H. G. Wells).
SYNONYM(S): optimistic.2. confident; hopeful: »sanguine of success. I was not too sanguine of seeing an epic when I took my seat in the Garden on the night of the fight (New Yorker).
SYNONYM(S): optimistic.4. (in ancient and medieval physiology) having blood as the predominant humor, indicated by a ruddy complexion and a cheerful and ardent disposition.5. = sanguinary. (Cf. ↑sanguinary)–n.1. Heraldry. the blood-red color in coats of arms, in engravings represented by intersecting diagonal lines; murrey.2. a) a crayon colored red with iron oxide. b) a drawing executed with red chalks.╂[< Middle French sanguin, learned borrowing from Latin sanguineus < sanguīs, -inis blood]–san´guine|ly, adverb.–san´guine|ness, noun.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.