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Blithe vs Winsome - What's the difference?

blithe | winsome |

As adjectives the difference between blithe and winsome

is that blithe is dated or literary Happy, cheerful while winsome is charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner.

blithe

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (dated or literary) Happy, cheerful.
  • Indifferent, careless, showing a lack of concern.
    • She had a blithe disregard of cultures outside the United States.

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    winsome

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner.
    • His bedside manner was especially winsome .
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
    • 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.

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    * winsomeness * winsomely

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