in medieval physiology, having blood as the predominating humour1 (7) (body fluid believed to determine a person's disposition)
having the bodily form and temperament held to be characteristic of such predominance and marked by sturdiness, high colour, and cheerfulness
confident; optimistic
disappointed in a very sanguine hope — Jane Austen
in medieval physiology, having blood as the predominating humour1 (7) (body fluid believed to determine a person's disposition), marked by sturdiness, high colour, and cheerfulness
ruddy
a sanguine complexion
chiefly literary of a blood-red colour
like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe — Milton
formal bloody or bloodthirsty
sanguinely adv
sanguineness noun
[Middle English sanguin via French from Latin sanguineus, from sanguin-, sanguis blood]