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san⋅guine

  [sang-gwin]
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–adjective
1. cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
2. reddish; ruddy: a sanguine complexion.
3. (in old physiology) having blood as the predominating humor and consequently being ruddy-faced, cheerful, etc.
4. bloody; sanguinary.
5. blood-red; red.
6. Heraldry. a reddish-purple tincture.
–noun
7. a red iron-oxide crayon used in making drawings.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME sanguyne a blood-red cloth < OF sanguin < L sanguineus bloody, equiv. to sanguin-, s. of sanguis blood + -eus -eous

Related forms:
san⋅guine⋅ly, adverb
san⋅guin⋅i⋅ty, san⋅guin⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. enthusiastic, buoyant, animated, lively, spirited.

Antonyms:
1. morose.
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sanguine 
1319, "type of red cloth," from O.Fr. sanguin (fem. sanguine), from L. sanguineus "of blood," also "bloody, bloodthirsty," from sanguis (gen. sanguinis) "blood" (see sanguinary). Meaning "blood-red" is recorded from 1382. Meaning "cheerful, hopeful, confident" first attested 1509, since these qualities were thought in medieval physiology to spring from an excess of blood as one of the four humors.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: san·guine
Pronunciation: 'sa[ng]-gw&n
Function: adjective
1 a : consisting of or relating to blood b of thecomplexion : RUDDY
2 : having blood as the predominating bodily humor; also : having the bodily conformation and temperament held characteristic of such predominance and marked by sturdiness, high color, and cheerfulness
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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sanguine san·guine (sāng'gwĭn)
adj.

  1. Of a healthy, reddish color; ruddy.

  2. Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

  3. Having blood as the dominant humor in terms of medieval physiology.

  4. Archaic Having the temperament and ruddy complexion that was formerly thought to be characteristic of a person dominated by this humor; passionate.

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