adj
winsome
Winsome (adj) means Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner.
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Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner.
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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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"winsome" (adj) means charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner.