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Winsome vs Wilsome - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between winsome and wilsome

is that winsome is charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner while wilsome is willful; obstinate; stubborn or wilsome can be wandering; devious.

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)

    wilsome

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) wilsom, equivalent to .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Willful; obstinate; stubborn.
  • Loved; desirable; amiable.
  • Fat; indolent.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) wilsum, wilsom, wildsom, probably after (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wandering; devious.
  • Doubtful; uncertain.