winsome
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of winsome
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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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.”
“Will ye keep your troth to me, / Winsome Annie Ramsay? / Will ye keep your troth to me, / Winsome Annie Ramsay? / Will ye keep your troth to me? / My ain true luve will ye be? / Then meet me at the trysting tree, / Winsome Annie Ramsay.”
“Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance was in very truth as fair a specimen of winsome Irish girlhood as one could wish to see.”
“He [Ching Keng Lee] is a man of fine physique and above the height of the average Straits-born, with a shrewd business head, and affable and winsome manners, and continues to take a keen interest in public affairs.”
“The pink wallpaper of the nursery was decorated with a Noah's Ark of friendly lions and comical giraffes and winsome elephants.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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.
Words you can make from winsome
126 playable · top: MEOWS (10 pts)
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16 words4-letter words
43 words- MEOW 9 pts
- MEWS 9 pts
- MOWN 9 pts
- MOWS 9 pts
- SMEW 9 pts
- SWIM 9 pts
- ENOW 7 pts
- NEWS 7 pts
- NOWS 7 pts
- OWES 7 pts
- OWIE 7 pts
- OWNS 7 pts
- OWSE 7 pts
- SEWN 7 pts
- SNOW 7 pts
- SOWN 7 pts
- WENS 7 pts
- WINE 7 pts
- WINO 7 pts
- WINS 7 pts
- WISE 7 pts
- WOES 7 pts
- WONS 7 pts
- EMOS 6 pts
- MENO 6 pts
- MIEN 6 pts
- MINE 6 pts
- MISE 6 pts
- MISO 6 pts
- MONS 6 pts
- NIMS 6 pts
- NOME 6 pts
- NOMS 6 pts
- OMEN 6 pts
- SEMI 6 pts
- SOME 6 pts
- EONS 4 pts
- IONS 4 pts
- NOES 4 pts
- NOSE 4 pts
- ONES 4 pts
- SINE 4 pts
- SONE 4 pts
3-letter words
41 words- MEW 8 pts
- MOW 8 pts
- NEW 6 pts
- NOW 6 pts
- OWE 6 pts
- OWN 6 pts
- SEW 6 pts
- SOW 6 pts
- WEN 6 pts
- WIN 6 pts
- WIS 6 pts
- WOE 6 pts
- WON 6 pts
- WOS 6 pts
- EMO 5 pts
- EMS 5 pts
- ISM 5 pts
- MEN 5 pts
- MES 5 pts
- MIS 5 pts
- MOI 5 pts
- MON 5 pts
- MOS 5 pts
- NIM 5 pts
- NOM 5 pts
- OMS 5 pts
- SIM 5 pts
- SOM 5 pts
- ENS 3 pts
- EON 3 pts
- INS 3 pts
- ION 3 pts
- NOS 3 pts
- OES 3 pts
- ONE 3 pts
- ONS 3 pts
- OSE 3 pts
- SEI 3 pts
- SEN 3 pts
- SIN 3 pts
- SON 3 pts
2-letter words
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