Winsome

//ˈwɪn.səm// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner.

    "[…] lifting her winsome eyes to my face with that sort of look which turns off bad temper, even when one has all the right in the world to indulge it."

Adjective
  1. 1
    charming in a childlike or naive way wordnet

Synonyms

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attractiveadmirableadorablealluringamiableangelic

Antonyms

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deform

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"How could you dislike that winsome smile?"

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English wynsom, winsom, winsome, winsum, wunsum (“beautiful; agreeable, gracious, pleasant; generous; of situations: favourable, propitious”), from Old English wynsum (“joyful, merry, pleasant; winsome”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnjusam (“joyful”). By surface analysis, winne (“delight, joy, pleasure”) + -some.

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