Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Relating to or involving blood or bloodshed.
- adj. Having the color of blood; blood-red.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. Accompanied by bloodshed; bloody
- adj. Eager for bloody violence; bloodthirsty
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Abounding with blood; sanguine.
- adj. Of or pertaining to blood; bloody; constituting blood.
- adj. Blood-red; crimson.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. accompanied by bloodshed
Etymologies
- From Latin sanguineus. (Wiktionary)
- From Latin sanguineus, from sanguis, sanguin-, blood. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“If I see oxtail, I think of braising; if I see sirloin, I think of frying in all its sanguineous glory, please.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Setting a sanguineous course in their reckless pursuit of wealth and power, they have afflicted humankind with their perverse agenda.”
“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”
“Our government is still dominated by sadistic narcissists who shamelessly mask their avaricious, sanguineous agenda with noble words like freedom, democracy, and liberty.”
“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.”
“All the vivipara are sanguineous, and the sanguinea are either viviparous or oviparous, except those which are altogether infertile.”
“But both the secretion of the male and the catamenia of the female are of a sanguineous nature, and the first principle of this blood and of the blood-vessels is the heart, and the heart is in this part of the body.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘sanguineous’.
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color (red)
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
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Archaic Colours
Words for colours that have fallen out of use.
aeneous, croceate, cretaceous, cramoisy, corbeau, coquelicot, coccineous, claret, cinerious, chrysochlorous, chlorochrous, cesious and 128 more...
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The Request Line
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Of or Pertaining to Blood
Adjectives referring to blood
haematic, haemic, hematic, hemic, sanguineous, sanguinaceous, sanguinary, sanguinous, haematinic, hematinic, haemal, hemal and 30 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Colors
Words for colors, including things so associated with a color that they can be used in reference to a color.
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, purple, navy, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse and 218 more...
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Madame Bovary
Some good words (chiefly French of origin, and often to do with the medical profession) encountered reading the Aveling translation -- mostly new to me, but a few words that are just worthy of bein...
tulle, argand, friable, corolla, lives of stir, difficile, rime, inveigh, feuilleton, peristyle, refulgence, wainscoting and 98 more...
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sangui-, sanguineo-, sanguino-
blood
sanguicolous, sanguineo-vascular, sanguino-purulent, sanguine, sanguineous, sanguinary, sanguinity, sanguineness
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pcofdirt's Words
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Greg's Words
frippet, furtive, gimcrack, indefatigable, vicissitudes, pedant, ziggurat, susurrus, sub rosa, rodomontade, interregnum, abscise and 168 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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Of Questionable Practicality
Eg., too specific to appear in ordinary conversations.
nostrum, squamiferous, roriferous, sanguineous, mezzaluna, virago, noctuary, petrichor, zephyr, myopic, anthropophagy, psalloid and 10 more...
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Colors Categorized: Reds
Exactly what it says on the tin
red, crimson, scarlet, vermillion, apple, candy apple, fire engine, ruby, cherry, blood, rose, garnet and 42 more...
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gtg427s's Words
philtrum, brobdingnagian, sanguineous, hemidemisemiquaver, invigorated, troglodyte, erudite, portmanteau, lugubrious, prestidigitation, lallation, cacemphaton and 7 more...
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