different between winsome vs winly

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

Etymology

From Middle English winly, wynnelych, wunliche, from Old English wynl?? (“joyous”), from Proto-Germanic *wunil?kaz (“joyous”), from *wunj? (“joy, delight, desire”), equivalent to winne +? -ly. More at winne, winsome.

Adjective

winly (comparative more winly, superlative most winly)

1. (obsolete) Joyous; winsome; pleasant; gracious; goodly.

Adverb

winly (comparative more winly, superlative most winly)

1. (obsolete) Delightfully; pleasantly.
2. (chiefly dialectal) Quietly.

Related terms

• winne
• winsome

Middle English

Adverb

winly

1. Alternative form of wynly