sanguine
adjective
cheerfully optimistic, sometimes to the point of seeming complacent, oblivious, or naive.
sanguineness
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a word derived from
sanguine.
Example Sentences
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But it is the next interest rate decision on 9 May that may explain Mr Sunak's sanguineness.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2024
Anthropologist Lionel Tiger; it explores the possible biological origins of the human sanguineness that underlies feelings of wellbeing, whatever they are called.
From Time Magazine Archive
One man had died, perhaps half-a-dozen more were invalids, but the rest were strong and hearty: to be sure, we all lacked much of that sanguineness which had animated us hitherto.
From Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 by Sherard Osborn
The old enthusiastic sanguineness had been effectually quenched.
From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church
When to natural cheerfulness and sanguineness, are added a consciousness of God's ever present care, and a knowledge of his rich promises, are we likely to be the more sad or the more unhappy?
From The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps by Thomas Arnold
