Synonyms for sanguine
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Optimistic — anticipating the best; optimistic; confident; full of hope
optimistic, hopeful, confident, cheerful, enthusiastic, assured, bright, up-beat, cheery, eager, positive, bullish, sure, mellow, secure, lively, ridibund rare
4. Murderous — bloodthirsty
Other
gory, bloodied, sanguineous, sybaritic, debaucherous, sanguinolent, incarnadine formal dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Warm; ardent.
- adj. 2
Anticipating the best; optimistic; confident; full of hope.
I'm sanguine about the eventual success of the project.
- adj. 3
Bloodthirsty.
- adj. 4
Having the colour of blood; blood red.
Related words
- Word family
- sanguinely sanguineness sanguinity sanguinary sanguinously
Example sentences
- confident He is confident that he will pass the examination.
- optimistic Tom told Mary that he thought John was optimistic.
- hopeful We rise with the sun, hopeful for the day ahead.
- cheerful She is loved by everybody because she is cheerful.
- bloodied We discovered a bloodied knife at the crime scene.
- sybaritic We spent a sybaritic week in Italy.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| sanguine | steady | |
| confident | rising | |
| optimistic | steady | |
| hopeful | steady | |
| cheerful | rising | |
| bloodied | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- sure1, gory2
- 5 letters
- eager2, ruddy2
- 6 letters
- bright1, secure2, lively2, mellow2, cheery2, florid2
- 7 letters
- assured2, hopeful2, bullish2, buoyant2
- 8 letters
- positive3, animated4, cheerful2, spirited3, bloodied2, rubicund, ridibund
- 9 letters
- confident3, murderous3, homicidal4, sybaritic
- 10 letters
- optimistic4, bloodlusty
- 11 letters
- incarnadine, sanguineous
- 12 letters
- enthusiastic5, debaucherous, sanguinolent
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gory2 = 2 syllables).