How could you dislike that winsome smile?
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Winsome
//ˈwɪn.səm//
Synonyms for "winsome" (128 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (38)
Related words (64)
hopefulhypnoticin good spiritsin high spiritsinterestingintriguinginvitingirrepressibleirresistiblekissablelaughinglikablelovablelovelylovesomeluxuriousmagneticmesmericmouth wateringmouth-watering
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niceof good cheeroptimisticpiquantpleasantprepossessingprettyprovocativeprovoquantradiantravishingriantrosysanguinesanguineousseducingseductivesensuousseraphicsirensirenicsmilingsparklingspellbindingspellfulsunnysweettakingtantalizingteasingtemptingthrillingticklingtitillatingtitillativevoluptuouswinningwitching
Adjective(6 words)
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Translations
24 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- очарователен adj (charming, engaging, winning)
- привлекателен adj (charming, engaging, winning)
Catalan
1 entries- encantador adj (charming, engaging, winning)
Czech
3 entries- okouzlující adj (charming, engaging, winning)
- podmanivý adj (charming, engaging, winning)
- půvabný adj (charming, engaging, winning)
Dutch
1 entries- innemend adj (charming, engaging, winning)
Finnish
1 entries- valloittava adj (charming, engaging, winning)
Galician
1 entries- encantador adj (charming, engaging, winning)
Georgian
2 entries- მიმზიდველი adj (charming, engaging, winning)
- მომხიბლავი adj (charming, engaging, winning)
German
1 entries- gewinnend adj (charming, engaging, winning)
Greek
1 entries- ελκυστικός adj (charming, engaging, winning)
Hungarian
4 entries- bájos adj (charming, engaging, winning)
- elbűvölő adj (charming, engaging, winning)
- megejtő adj (charming, engaging, winning)
- megnyerő adj (charming, engaging, winning)
Middle English
2 entries- winsing adj (charming, engaging, winning)
- winsom adj (charming, engaging, winning)
Polish
1 entries- ujmujący adj (charming, engaging, winning)
Portuguese
2 entries- atraente adj (charming, engaging, winning)
- encantador adj (charming, engaging, winning)
Russian
1 entries- обая́тельный adj (charming, engaging, winning)
Spanish
1 entries- encantador adj (charming, engaging, winning)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
[…] 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.
Source: wiktionary
Will ye keep your troth to me, / Winsome Annie Ramsay? / Will ye keep your troth to me, / Winsome Annie Ramsay? / Will ye keep your troth to me? / My ain true luve will ye be? / Then meet me at the trysting tree, / Winsome Annie Ramsay.
Source: wiktionary
Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance was in very truth as fair a specimen of winsome Irish girlhood as one could wish to see.
Source: wiktionary
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