Winsome vs Beguiling - What's the difference?
winsome | beguiling | Related terms |
Charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner.
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
That beguiles or beguile.
* a beguiling look
* 2009 , , The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet , Pinguin Books, page 26:
Winsome is a related term of beguiling.
As adjectives the difference between winsome and beguiling
is that winsome is charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner while beguiling is that beguiles or beguile.As a verb beguiling is
.As a noun beguiling is
a beguilement.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 * winsomelybeguiling
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- I thought he was supposed to be my mentor. But, in actuality, what did I know about the often beguiling world of adults?