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Winsome vs Gracious - What's the difference?

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Winsome is a related term of gracious.


As adjectives the difference between winsome and gracious

is that winsome is charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner while gracious is kind and warmly courteous.

As an interjection gracious is

expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.

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.

    Derived terms

    * winsomeness * winsomely

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

    gracious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gratious (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • kind and warmly courteous
  • tactful
  • compassionate
  • indulgent, charming and graceful
  • elegant and with good taste
  • benignant

    • Derived terms

    * graciousness * graciously

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.