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sanguineous

sanguineous adjective: accompanied by bloodshed; bloody.

Adjective

sanguineous (comparative more sanguineous, superlative most sanguineous)

  1. Accompanied by bloodshed; bloody.
    • [F]or swinging of incense-pans and Eighty-three Departmental Banners, we have waving of the one sanguineous Drapeau Rouge [red flag].1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book III (The Tuileries), page 105
  2. Eager for bloody violence; bloodthirsty.
  3. Resembling or constituting blood.

sanguineous meaning in Tamil

sanguineous in Tamil

இரத்தம் கலந்த, செந்நீரிய

Forms of sanguineous

comparativemore sanguineous
superlativemost sanguineous

Origin of sanguineous

Adapted borrowing of Latin sanguineus + -ous. Doublet of sanguine.

Words formed from sanguineous

Questions about sanguineous

What does sanguineous mean?
Sanguineous means accompanied by bloodshed; bloody.
What is sanguineous in Tamil?
Sanguineous in Tamil is இரத்தம் கலந்த, செந்நீரிய. See Sanguineous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sanguineous?
Sanguineous is an adjective.

Words near sanguineous in the dictionary

  1. sanguinely
  2. sanguineness
  3. sanguineobilious
  4. sanguineocholeric
  5. sanguineophlegmatic
  6. sanguineous
  7. sanguineousness
  8. sanguines
  9. sanguiniferous
  10. sanguining
  11. sanguinism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sanguineous (page history and authors); sanguineous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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