Winsome vs Allure - What's the difference?
winsome | allure |
Charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner.
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
gait; bearing
To entice; to attract.
*, II.8:
*:Injustice doth allure them; as the honour of their vertuous actions enticeth the good.
As an adjective winsome
is charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner.As a noun allure is
affectation.winsome
English
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.
Derived terms
* winsomeness * winsomelyallure
English
Noun
- The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men. — Harper's Magazine.