oversanguine

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
21
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/əʊvəˈsaŋɡwɪn/ (UK)

Definition of oversanguine

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Too sanguine; overconfident, too disposed to hopes of success.
    “So when the Elizabethan bishop, Edwin Sanders, claimed that ‘the gospel hath chased away walking spirits’, he was over-sanguine.”
    “In that respect the popular clamor for "smashing" the rebels was based on sound if oversanguine instinct.”

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Etymology

From over- + sanguine.

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