• (RP) IPA: /ˈwɪn.s(ə)m/
• (America) IPA: /ˈwɪn.səm/

winsome (comparative winsomer, superlative winsomest)

1. Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner.
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter IX, in Wuthering Heights‎:

     […] lifting her winsome eyes to my face with that sort of look which turns off bad temper, even when one has all the right in the world to indulge it.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13, Nausicaa]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC ↗, part II [Odyssey], page 333 ↗:

     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.

   • 1923, Song Ong Siang, “The Ninth Decade (1899–1909): Second Part”, in One Hundred Years’ History of the Chinese in Singapore: […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC ↗, page 377 ↗:

     He [Ching Keng Lee] is a man of fine physique and above the height of the average Straits-born, with a shrewd business head, and affable and winsome manners, and continues to take a keen interest in public affairs.

• winly
• winne
• winsomely
• winsomeness

• German: gewinnend
• Portuguese: atraente, encantador
• Russian: обая́тельный
• Spanish: encantador