sanguine

1. 1.

   a blood-red color

   Broaderred

Other forms of sanguine

plural

sanguines·

comparative

sanguiner·

superlative

sanguinest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sanguine

What does sanguine mean?

sanguine means "confidently optimistic and cheerful". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sanguine?

sanguine has 2 syllables: san-guine. The stress falls on "san". In IPA it is /ˈsæŋɡwɪn/.

What is another word for sanguine?

Close synonyms include sanguineous, rubicund, ruddy, florid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sanguine a common word?

sanguine is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.