1. sanguine - Noun
2. sanguine - Adjective
3. sanguine - Verb
4. sanguine - Adjective Satellite
Having the color of blood; red.
Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.
Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.
Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success.
Blood color; red.
Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.
Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.
To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope. Hilaire Belloc
Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician. Anthony Trollope
I decline the election. - It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself. Edmund Burke
Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet. William James
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity. Johann Kaspar Lavater
We have large armies, well disciplined and appointed, with commanders inferior to none in military skill, and superior in activity and zeal. We are furnished with arsenals and stores beyond our most sanguine expectations. Samuel Adams