0 (of someone or someone's character) positive and hoping for good things: --
The sun lit up her hair, bringing out tremendous sanguine red and amber highlights.
2 (of someone or someone's character) positive and hopeful: --
On the one hand, these social democratic parties have become less sanguine about social democracy at the national level.
Not all party members were so sanguine about the program.
The tone of the analysis must therefore be more sober than sanguine.
Historians of gender and sexuality used to be far more sanguine about the present.
These four writers are sanguine about the prospects for democracy in their given areas of expertise.
Despite this sanguine attitude, measures were taken to protect against destabilization should there be a large-scale repatriation of notes.
Overly sanguine analyses dominated the academic debate in the early 1990s, but the critics had the upper hand by the end of the decade.
But his vision for society is predicated on a sanguine view of social relationships.
