winsome
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səm adjective
sweetly or innocently charming; winning; engaging: a winsome smile.
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| —adj | |
| charming; winning; engaging: a winsome smile | |
| [Old English wynsum, from wynn joy (related to Old High German wunnia, German Wonne) + -sum | |
| 'winsomely | |
| —adv | |
| 'winsomeness | |
| —n | |
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Winsome
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Word Origin & History
winsome
O.E. wynsum "agreeable, pleasant," from wynn "pleasure, delight" (cf. Ger. Wonne "joy, delight;" see win) + -sum "-some." Apparently surviving only in northern English dialect for 400 years until revived 18c. by Hamilton, Burns, and other Scot. poets.
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Example sentences
Questioning the right of someone to stand somewhere is not a winsome post to write.
There is an winsome aesthetic quality to scrupulous adherence to the pursuit of scientific truth.
The biggest loss, though, is that many of the newer books have edited out the winsome tag lines from the editors and contributors.
She's petulant and winsome, as if her entire life is the result of performance anxiety.
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