san|guine

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.

3. having a healthy red color; ruddy: »

a sanguine complexion.

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.