Prepossessing vs Winsome - What's the difference?
prepossessing | winsome | Synonyms |
Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.
*1836 , Dickens, Sketches by Boz ,
*:Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young-lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love.
*1852 , H. B. Stowe,
*:These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind, and in almost every case with a personal appearance prepossessing and agreeable.
Charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner.
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
Prepossessing is a synonym of winsome.
As adjectives the difference between prepossessing and winsome
is that prepossessing is tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner while winsome is charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner.prepossessing
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(Webster 1913)Adjective
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*winsome
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Adjective
(en adjective)- His bedside manner was especially winsome .
- 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.