The meaning of SANGUINE is marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic. How to use sanguine in a sentence. Did you know?
Also in Middle English as a noun, a type of red cloth (early 14c.). It sometimes was used in the senses now going withsanguinary. -ity word-forming element making abstract nouns from adjectives and meaning "condition or quality of being ___," from Middle English-ite, from Old French-...