sanguine
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English sanguine, from Old French sanguin, ultimately from Latin sanguineus (“of blood”), from sanguis (“blood”) (of uncertain origin, but probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sh₂-én-, from *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”), with an obscure suffix such as *-ǵʰ- (related to body parts)) + -inus + -eus. The obsolete medical sense is in reference to the humour (blood) which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with cheerfulness, optimism, confidence, liveliness, and spiritedness. Doublet of sanguineous.
Affixes: -inus
Inflected forms:
form: more sanguine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sanguine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sanguines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sanguines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sanguining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sanguined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sanguined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having the colour of blood; blood red.
pos: adj
tags: literary
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: What, what, ye sanguine, shallow-hearted boys!
I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine coward, this
bed-presser, this horse-back-breaker, this huge hill of flesh.
gloss: Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood.
pos: adj
examples: a sanguine bodily temperament
Eleonore Lemindre, aged 34, tailoress, of a sanguine lymphatic temperament, having suffered great depression of spirits, experienced, in the course of 1820, symptoms of what is called disease of the heart.
gloss: Warm; ardent.
pos: adj
examples: a sanguine temper
gloss: Anticipating the best; optimistic; confident; full of hope.
pos: adj
examples: I'm sanguine about the eventual success of the project.
Mrs. Weston was exceedingly disappointed—much more disappointed, in fact, than her husband, though her dependence on seeing the young man had been so much more sober: but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. It soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.
It was clear that Dr. Gwynne was not very sanguine as to the effects of his journey to Barchester, and not over anxious to interfere with the bishop.
When the railway was opened on August 2, 1897, it was expected that Cruden Bay, on the Aberdeenshire coast, would develop into a popular holiday resort, but this sanguine forecast was never fully realised.
The plan was not feasible, for making a ninety-degree turn would have been impossible without nickel-alloy swivels inserted in the small of every man's back, and Lieutenant Scheisskopf was not sanguine at all about obtaining that many nickel-alloy swivels from Quartermaster or enlisting the cooperation of the surgeons at the hospital.
Maybe it was hormones, or the immersion of parenting a newborn, or a new appreciation for what my body could do, but I felt surprisingly sanguine about my wobbly physical state.
gloss: Full of blood; bloody.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Bloodthirsty.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Blood colour; red.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Anything of a blood-red colour, as cloth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Bloodstone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Red crayon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To stain with blood; to impart the colour of blood to; to ensanguine.
pos: verb
Derived words: consanguine
exsanguine
nonsanguine
oversanguine
sanguinary
sanguineless
sanguinely
sanguineness
sanguineobilious
sanguineocholeric
sanguineophlegmatic
sanguinism
sanguinity
sanguinously
serosanguine
ultrasanguine
unsanguine
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