Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or involving blood or bloodshed.
- adjective Having the color of blood; blood-red.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to blood; bloody.
- Of a deep-red or crimson color; specifically, in zoology and botany, of a deep, somewhat brownish, red color, like the color of clotted blood.
- Possessing a circulatory system; having blood.
- A bounding with blood; having a full habit; plethoric.
- Having a sanguine temperament; ardent; hopeful; confident.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding with blood; sanguine.
- adjective Of or pertaining to blood; bloody; constituting blood.
- adjective Blood-red; crimson.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Accompanied by
bloodshed ;bloody - adjective Eager for bloody
violence ;bloodthirsty
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective accompanied by bloodshed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If you're looking to de-ironify your 2008 Ricco portrait, you may want to hang this next to it as an overly earnest and sanguineous symbol of redemption.
Throwing Down Your Arms: A Time and Place for Everything BikeSnobNYC 2010
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And I find a sanguineous one especially offensive, regardless of whether the blood was the result of a crash, the manifestation of Fixed-gear Apocalypse-related stigmata, or even the aftermath of the rare but documented phenomenon of man-struation.
Archive 2008-03-01 BikeSnobNYC 2008
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If I see oxtail, I think of braising; if I see sirloin, I think of frying in all its sanguineous glory, please.
Archive 2008-11-01 Shaun 2008
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But he had intermarried with a branch of the Stiltstalkings, who were also better endowed in a sanguineous point of view than with real or personal property, and of this marriage there had been issue, Barnacle junior and three young ladies.
Little Dorrit 2007
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Setting a sanguineous course in their reckless pursuit of wealth and power, they have afflicted humankind with their perverse agenda.
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Setting a sanguineous course in their reckless pursuit of wealth and power, they have afflicted humankind with their perverse agenda.
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Setting a sanguineous course in their reckless pursuit of wealth and power, they have afflicted humankind with their perverse agenda.
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What did he know of the Ecole Romantique, and these jeunes gens with their Marie Tudors and Tours de Nesle, and sanguineous histories of queens who sewed their lovers into sacks, emperors who had interviews with robber captains in
The Newcomes 2006
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Our government is still dominated by sadistic narcissists who shamelessly mask their avaricious, sanguineous agenda with noble words like freedom, democracy, and liberty.
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But the female is opposite to the male, and is female because of its inability to concoct and of the coldness of the sanguineous nutriment.
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