sanguine

sanguine

adjective

Definition of SANGUINE

1

eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, extreme violence, or killing <the Civil War remains America's most sanguine conflict>

Synonyms bloody, bloody-minded, homicidal, murdering, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous

Related Words barbaric, barbarous, brutal, cold-blooded, cruel, heartless, inhumane, sadistic, savage, vicious, wanton; antagonistic, ferocious, fierce, gladiatorial, hostile; aggressive, assertive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, discordant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, violent; merciless, pitiless, ruthless; bloodstained, fell, gory, grim; despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful

Near Antonyms appeasing, conciliatory, disarming, dovish, mollifying, pacific, pacifying, peaceable, peaceful, peacemaking, placating, placative, placatory, propitiatory; unaggressive, unassertive; benign, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, humane, kind, kindhearted, sympathetic, tenderhearted; tender, warm, warmhearted; clement, lenient, merciful; affable, amiable, amicable, benevolent, gentle, kindly; submissive, surrendering, yielding

2

having a healthy reddish skin tone <a baby with a sanguine complexion is more likely to leave the hospital early than a sickly-looking one>

Synonyms blooming, florid, flush, full-blooded, glowing, red, rosy, rubicund, sanguine

Related Words bronzed, brown, suntanned, tanned; bloomy, blowsy (also blowzy), blushing, flushed, pink, pinkish, warm; cherubic

Near Antonyms waxen, waxy; blanched, white, whitened; anemic, sick, sickly; bloodless, cadaverous; whey-faced, white-faced

Antonyms ashen, ashy, doughy, livid, lurid, mealy, pale, paled, palish, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, sallow, sallowish, wan

3

having or showing a mind free from doubt <I'm reasonably sanguine about the adoption of the latest proposal>

Synonyms assured, clear, cocksure, confident, doubtless, implicit, positive, sanguine, sure

Related Words self-assured, self-conceited, self-confident; decisive, resolute, unfaltering, unhesitating, unquestioning, unwavering

Near Antonyms hesitant, indecisive, vacillating, wavering; diffident, unassuming

Antonyms doubtful, dubious, uncertain, unsure