sanguineous

[ sang-gwin-ee-uhs ]

/ sæŋˈgwɪn i əs /

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adjective

of, relating to, or containing blood.

of the color of blood.

involving much bloodshed.

sanguine; confident.

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Origin of sanguineous

First recorded in 1510–20, sanguineous is from the Latin word sanguineus bloody. See sanguine

OTHER WORDS FROM sanguineous

san·guin·e·ous·ness, nounun·san·guin·e·ous, adjectiveun·san·guin·e·ous·ly, adverb

Words nearby sanguineous

sanguiferous, sanguification, sanguinaria, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous, sanguinolent, sanguivorous, Sanhedrin, Sanibel Island, sanicle

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How to use sanguineous in a sentence

The phagocytes are numerous in the sanguineous fluid, but are still six hundred and fifty times less so than the red corpuscles.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, January 1900|Various
But punctilli are infections commonly sanguineous, as if they had arisen from a fleabite, only they remain continually.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton
M. Stanislas Kapp was the son of and heir of a rich brewer of Strasbourg, a youth of a sanguineous—and sanguinary—temperament.
The American|Henry James
They are no longer Minnesingers, but warriors of sanguineous complexion.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847|Various

In his account of the sanguineous and nervous systems, the errors seem more numerous.
Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1|Henry Hallam

British Dictionary definitions for sanguineous

sanguineous

/ (sæŋˈɡwɪnɪəs) /

adjective

of, containing, relating to, or associated with blood

a less common word for sanguine (def. 1), sanguine (def. 2), sanguine (def. 3)

Derived forms of sanguineous

sanguineousness, noun

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sanguineous

Origin of sanguineous

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