Ebullient vs. Sanguine — What's the Difference?

Zestfully enthusiastic.

Sanguine () or red chalk is chalk of a reddish-brown colour, so called because it resembles the colour of dried blood. It has been popular for centuries for drawing (where white chalk only works on coloured paper).

Boiling or seeming to boil; bubbling.

Optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation

Enthusiastic; high-spirited.

Blood-red.

Boiling or agitated as if boiling.

Bloody or bloodthirsty.

Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing.

A blood-red colour.

Joyously unrestrained

Cheerfully confident; optimistic

At ease; accepting

Having blood as the dominant humor in terms of medieval physiology.

Having the temperament and ruddy complexion formerly thought to be characteristic of a person dominated by this humor; passionate.

Of the color of blood; red.

Of a healthy reddish color; ruddy

(literary) Having the colour of blood; blood red.

Having a bodily constitution characterised by a preponderance of blood over the other bodily humours, thought to be marked by irresponsible mirth; indulgent in pleasure to the exclusion of important matters.

Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood.

Warm; ardent.

Anticipating the best; optimistic; confident; full of hope.

(archaic) Full of blood; bloody.

(archaic) Bloodthirsty.

Blood colour; red.

Anything of a blood-red colour, as cloth.

(tincture) A tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey).

Bloodstone.

Red crayon.

To stain with blood; to impart the colour of blood to; to ensanguine.

Having the color of blood; red.

Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.

Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.

Anticipating the best; cheerfully optimistic; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success; a sanguine disposition.

Blood color; red.

Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.

Bloodstone.

Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.

To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.

Confidently optimistic and cheerful

Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life;