sanguine

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Notice how it's the people who study it who are the least sanguine in their predictions.

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Quick take

a blood-red color

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sanguine gathered in one view.

noun

a blood-red color

adjective

confidently optimistic and cheerful

adjective

inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sanguine.

noun

a blood-red color

adjective

confidently optimistic and cheerful

adjective

inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion"

Example sentences

Notice how it's the people who study it who are the least sanguine in their predictions.

"I am further not sanguine about the tech companies coming out on top this time.

Were their service any less vital to my life in general, perhaps I'd feel more sanguine.

And finally, I don't think many people here would be sanguine about seeing someone get harassed.

Would you be equally sanguine about someone enjoying the fruits of your work at their arbitrary price?

I'm not quite as sanguine on what technological change will do to employment, though I'm not sure what precisely it will do, either.

PG hasn't exactly been sanguine about the YCominator knockoffs.

> Norwegians are sanguine about their coughs and colds, toughing it out through low-grade infections.> "We don't throw antibiotics at every person with a fever.