different between winsome vs appealing

English

Etymology

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”); synchronically analyzable as winne (“delight, joy, pleasure”) +? -some.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?n.s(?)m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?n.s?m/
• Hyphenation: win?some

Adjective

winsome (comparative winsomer, superlative winsomest)

1. Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner.
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter IX:

     […] 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.

Related terms

• winly
• winne
• winsomely
• winsomeness

Translations

Further reading

• winsome (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Owenism

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??pi?.l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??pi.?l.??/, /??pi.l??/
• Rhymes: -i?l??

Adjective

appealing (comparative more appealing, superlative most appealing)

1. Having appeal; attractive.

Derived terms

• appealingly

Translations

Verb

appealing

1. present participle of appeal

Noun

appealing (plural appealings)

1. The act of making an appeal.

Anagrams

• lagniappe, panplegia