Winsome vs Amiable - What's the difference?
winsome | amiable | Related terms |
Charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner.
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Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.
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*:A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.
Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper; kindhearted; which causes one to be liked; as, an amiable person.
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*:A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.
Winsome is a related term of amiable.
As adjectives the difference between winsome and amiable
is that winsome is charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner while amiable is friendly; kind; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.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.
