Synonyms and Antonyms of sanguine
- the Civil War remains America's most sanguine conflict
barbaric, barbarous, brutal, cold-blooded, cruel, heartless, inhumane, sadistic, savage, vicious, wanton
antagonistic, ferocious, fierce, gladiatorial, hostile
aggressive, assertive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, discordant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, violent
bloodstained, fell, gory, grim
despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful
appeasing, conciliatory, disarming, dovish, mollifying, pacific, pacifying, peaceable, peaceful, peacemaking, placating, placative, placatory, propitiatory
benign, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, humane, kind, kindhearted, sympathetic, tenderhearted
- a baby with a sanguine complexion is more likely to leave the hospital early than a sickly-looking one
- I'm reasonably sanguine about the adoption of the latest proposal