sanguinolent
/sæŋˈɡwɪnələnt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Containing or tinged with blood.
Example Sentences
- "On making a larger opening there issued three or four pints of a very sanguinolent fluid."
- "When the desire to urinate manifests itself chiefly at night, with burning pains when urinating, or emission, drop by drop, of sanguinolent urine."
- "He still walked about London with his dreams, but as months succeeded months and he left the year behind him they were dreams not so much of success as of revenge. Success seemed a colourless name for the reward of his patience; something fiercely florid, something sanguinolent was more to the point."
- "They are caused by an accumulation of blood or sanguinolent liquid inside the dental follicles, they may occur in the deciduous as well as permanent dentition."
Etymology
From Middle English sanguinolent, from Old French sanguinolent, from Latin sanguinolentus (“of blood”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sanguinolent, sanguinolentus
Inflected Forms
more sanguinolent (comparative)
most sanguinolent (superlative)