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This week's theme Medicinal words to describe people This week's words choleric phlegmatic sanguine melancholic bilious Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Spread the word Send a gift subscription Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg sanguine PRONUNCIATION: (SANG-gwin) MEANING: adjective: 1. Cheerfully optimistic or confident. 2. Having a healthy reddish color. 3. Blood-red. ETYMOLOGY: From Old French sanguin, from Latin sanguineus (bloody), from sanguis (blood). USAGE: "As usual, Phillips is sanguine: Michael is totally focused now, and the insurance wasn't a problem, it was just expensive." Robert Sandall; Will Michael Jackson Survive His Concert Marathon? The Sunday Times (London, UK); May 31, 2009. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: We all have handicaps. The difference is that some of us must reveal ours, while others must conceal theirs, to be treated with mercy. -Yahia Lababidi, author (b. 1973)

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