Dictionary

oversanguine en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /əʊvəˈsaŋɡwɪn/ (UK)

Etymology

From over- + sanguine.

Meanings

1. Too sanguine; overconfident, too disposed to hopes of success.
   • In that respect the popular clamor for "smashing" the rebels was based on sound if oversanguine instinct. 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 335:
   • So when the Elizabethan bishop, Edwin Sanders, claimed that ‘the gospel hath chased away walking spirits’, he was over-sanguine. 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 571:

Forms

Deriveds

oversanguinely