Qualities
Synonyms for sanguine
The synonym for sanguine recorded in this bank is ruddy, in the sense "inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for sanguine
- ruddyadjective, in the sense "inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for sanguine.
inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life
A fresh and sanguine complexion.
The true synonym
ruddy
Same sentence, swapped: A fresh and ruddy complexion.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where sanguine stands in the sentence above.
- melancholic
- gory
- exalted
Where sanguine turns up in the game
sanguine is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where sanguine is the trap
- floridadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is flamboyant, in the sense "elaborately or excessively ornamented", and sanguine is one of the three tiles that lose.
- goryadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is bloodstained, in the sense "covered with blood", so sanguine is there to be ruled out.
Play sanguine
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sanguine reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
sanguine is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.