Definitions for sanguines

sanguines san·guine

Spelling: [sang-gwin]
IPA: /ˈsæŋ gwɪn/

Sanguines is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 297 anagrams from letters in sanguines (aeginnssu).

Definitions for sanguines

noun

  1. a red iron-oxide crayon used in making drawings.

adjective

  1. cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident:
  2. reddish; ruddy:
  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.

Origin of sanguines

1275-1325; Middle English sanguyne a blood-red cloth Old French sanguin Latin sanguineus bloody, equivalent to sanguin-, stem of sanguis blood + -eus -eous

Examples for sanguines

The experience left them sanguine about the sometimes vitriolic opinions of strangers on the Internet.

She is equally desirous of Levine, as animalistic and eager to consume him while sticky with sanguine fluid.

Mainwaring was of a sanguine disposition, with fiery temper.

He was sanguine in all his hopes, and rapid, but not unthinking, in all his decisions.

Birnie is sanguine as ever; but he is a terrible sort of comforter!

That said, I am not as sanguine about the future of the U.S.-Egypt bilateral relationship.

Markets will not be so sanguine if it is the Spanish or Italian banking system that needs an infusion.

Even the most sanguine now gave her up for lost, including the owners.

Some conservative pro-Israel groups and most Republicans opposed Hagel for being too hostile to Israel and too sanguine on Iran.

He had been one of the few as sanguine as Percival—and Blythe's manner now reassured him.

Word Value for sanguines
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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