Oversanguine

//əʊvəˈsaŋɡwɪn// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

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"So when the Elizabethan bishop, Edwin Sanders, claimed that ‘the gospel hath chased away walking spirits’, he was over-sanguine."

Etymology

From over- + sanguine.

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