winsome

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner.
    — […] 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.

词形变化

winsomer comparative winsomest superlative

词源

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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