sanguine

Examples

• All

• The walls of the gallery were painted in a deep sanguine hue, adding warmth to the space.

• The artist selected a rich sanguine chalk to create a vibrant portrait.

• Tepish, is there anything like a... Sanguine's doctor?

  Vamps (2012)

• They dream, sanguine dream of leather skinned children, their barbed smiles.

• I drank a few cold sanguines on my last trip to México.

  Pixels (2015)

• She sketched the landscape using sanguine pastels to capture the warm tones of the sunset.

Synonyms

B

brick red

vssanguine

1 2.4

A strong red-brown colour like the outside of a red brick

is the bloodlike color or artist material rather than the baked clay hue

R

reddish brown

vssanguine

1 2.5

A brown color with a slight red tint

is the specific bloodlike color or the reddish drawing material used by artists

R

red chalk

vssanguine

4.9

A soft red-brown material used for drawing lines and pictures

is the color itself rather than a specific artist material

I

Indian red

vssanguine

6.2

A warm red-brown color often used in paint and design

is the bloodlike color or the reddish artist material not the pigment name

V

Venetian red

vssanguine

7.7

A deep warm red with a slight brown tone

is the bloodlike color or artists' reddish material rather than the deep warm tone

Antonyms

P

pale

291 1.0

Has very light color and often looks sick or afraid

C

colorless

• US

12 2.9

Having very little or no color

How Red

sanguine

• Specialized

1 8.8

crimson

58 3.4

red

∞ 1.0

pink

43 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology