different between winsome vs enticing

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

• IPA: /?n?ta?s??/

Adjective

enticing (comparative more enticing, superlative most enticing)

1. That entices; alluring; attractive; charming

   Synonyms: enticing, (formal, obsolete) illecebrous; see also Thesaurus:attractive

   Antonyms: repulsive, unalluring, unattractive, unenticing

Translations

Verb

enticing

1. present participle of entice

References

• enticing in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• enticing in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Noun

enticing (plural enticings)

1. enticement; temptation