Sanguine

Word: Sanguine

Part of Speech: Adjective

Definition: (1) happily optimistic (most common), (2) bloody, (3) red, like blood.

Synonyms: Optimistic

Antonyms: Pessimistic

Helpful hints to remember: “Sang” is blood in French.

Sentences:

• Her sanguine cheeks revealed her embarrassment.
• Such sanguine environments like the abattoir are not for the meek or faint.
• “I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.”
• Of course, as with any word with multiple meanings, sanguine can be used in a “play on words”; for example, someone might possess a “sanguine love for war”.
• Note that sanguine also refers to the red chalk that has traditionally been used in sketches to create a sepia tone.