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winsome

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Adj — Pleasant and appealing in a sweet, innocent way that makes people like and trust someone.

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Inherited from Middle English wynsom, winsom, winsome, winsum, wunsum (“beautiful; agreeable, gracious, pleasant; generous; of situations: favourable, propitious”), which came from Old English wynsum (“joyful, merry, pleasant; winsome”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnjusam (“joyful”). Analysed on the surface, it is win...

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