winsome

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   sweetly or innocently charming in appearance, manner, or expression

   Her winsome smile quickly put the nervous children at ease.

Inherited from Old English wynsum, 'pleasant, delightful, joyful,' from wynn, 'joy or pleasure,' + -sum, the ancestor of modern -some. Its older sense of giving joy developed into the modern idea of innocent, engaging charm.

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