winsome

Meaning

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

Synonyms

attractive

alluring

charming

persuasive

lovely

agreeable

winning

pleasing

cheerful

fascinating

ravishing

delightful

disarming

taking

bewitching

adorable

enchanting

engaging

nice

entrancing

fair

friendly

genial

cute

handsome

inviting

kind

kindly

noteworthy

peach

🍑

prepossessing

pretty

pulchritudinous

rot

sociable

soft

sweet

tempting

tender

vivacious

good

👍

delightsome

affable

appealing

beauteous

beautiful

blithe

breathtaking

buxom

captivating

catching

charismatic

comely

dazzling

debonair

delicious

😋

desirable

fancy

fine

gay

gentle

graceful

hilarious

interesting

jolly

jovial

joyous

Hyphenated as

win‧some

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwɪn.s(ə)m/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: wynsom

Inherited from Old English: wynsum

In summary

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.