sanguine
Blood colour; redBlood colour; red.
» They were sanguine about the company's prospects.
Sie zeigten sich hinsichtlich der Aussichten des Unternehmens zuversichtlich. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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5 senses(countable, uncountable)Blood colour; red.
a blood-red color
(countable, uncountable)Anything of a blood-red colour, as cloth.
chalk of a reddish-brown colour that resembles dried blood
(countable, uncountable)A tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey).
(countable, uncountable)Bloodstone.
(countable, uncountable)Red crayon.
Examples
2 sentencesThey were sanguine about the company's prospects.
deSie zeigten sich hinsichtlich der Aussichten des Unternehmens zuversichtlich. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I am not sanguine that the negotiations will succeed.
Translations
6 languagesOrigin
From Middle English sanguine, from Old French sanguin, ultimately from Latin sanguineus (“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.
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Forms
plural: sanguinesSynonyms
1 synonyms- chalk of a reddish-brown colour that resembles dried blood:red chalk
Word family
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