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SANGUINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A blood-red color
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sanguine" is a kind of...):
red; redness (red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood)
Derivation:
sanguineous (accompanied by bloodshed)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life
Example:
a fresh and sanguine complexion
Synonyms:
florid; rubicund; ruddy; sanguine
Classified under:
Similar:
healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Confidently optimistic and cheerful
Synonyms:
sanguine; sanguineous
Classified under:
Similar:
optimistic (expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds)
Derivation:
sanguineness; sanguinity (feeling sanguine; optimistically cheerful and confident)
Context examples:
We might have been a party of Ogres, the conversation assumed such a sanguine complexion.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In seasons of cheerfulness, no temper could be more cheerful than hers, or possess, in a greater degree, that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Weston's sanguine temper was a blessing on all his upright and honourable exertions; but Mr. Weston earned every present comfort before he endeavoured to gain it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
His sanguine temper, and fearlessness of mind, operated very differently on her.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She spoke of her farther as somewhat delicate and puny, but was sanguine in the hope of her being materially better for change of air.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The sanguine hope of good, however, which the benevolence of her heart suggested had not yet deserted her; she still expected that it would all end well, and that every morning would bring some letter, either from Lydia or her father, to explain their proceedings, and, perhaps, announce their marriage.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Your old knowledge of me, my dear Mr. Copperfield, will have told you that I have not the sanguine disposition of Mr. Micawber.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mr. Harris, who attended her every day, still talked boldly of a speedy recovery, and Miss Dashwood was equally sanguine; but the expectation of the others was by no means so cheerful.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
In short, I can feel no dependence on his coming, and I wish Mr. Weston were less sanguine.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Her representation of her cousin's state at this time was exactly according to her own belief of it, and such as she supposed would convey to the sanguine mind of her correspondent the hope of everything she was wishing for.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
