词为我用 - winsome

词汇释义

winsome  TEM8  GRE

UK  /ˈwɪn.səm/ US  /ˈwɪn.səm/

adj, If you describe a person or their actions or behaviour as winsome, you mean that they are attractive and charming.迷人的，动人的，有魅力的

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外刊例句

1. This essay collection, from one of the co-founders of the cult feminist website the Toast, is characteristically wry and winsome.(The Guardian)

2. To return to those traditionalists: what if you want just leaves, some wholesome, winsome leaves, on their own, with no mucking about?(The Guardian)

3. Decades later, Friendly’s products, with the winsome script of the Friendly’s name emblazoned across their red cartons, are immediately recognizable in grocery stores.(Washington Post)

4. She was cute as a bug, wholesome, winsome and adored, at least in movies, by the swooning-est leading men in Hollywood — Rock Hudson, Cary Grant and Clark Gable, to name a few.(Washington Post)

5. The Trumpistas treat Trump much like Kim is treated with loud braying chants at political rallies and winsome looks like the Beatles were given in their day.(New York Times)

6. There are muscled heroes, winsome heroines and plenty of dance numbers — all hallmarks of Bollywood.(Los Angeles Times)

7. Fortunately, there is plenty of chemistry between Lowden and the winsome Lovibond, and their scenes of courtship both lighten the tone and earn our emotional investment.(Los Angeles Times)

8. “There’s a goldeneye,” he said, pointing to a winsome little duck paddling among a thicket of brawny geese.(Los Angeles Times)

9. This year’s lineup includes some 200 movies screened among four towns, many of which are shown in winsome Mill Valley, just north of San Francisco.(Wall Street Journal)

10. Emboldened by the winsome reaction it elicited, Matsuyama widened his grin and jabbed his fists in the air twice.(New York Times)

11. Things went from winsome to gruesome quickly, as Finau’s left foot landed off-balance and the ankle bent awkwardly while he slid to the turf.(New York Times)

12. In the JAM section of Frieze, Simpson presents a winsome selection of small works on paper, a corollary to the artist’s inky, big paintings now on view at Hauser & Wirth’s mainstay gallery, in Chelsea.(The New Yorker)

词汇搭配

winsome people, action, behaviour, reaction, selection

词汇家族

winsomely, winsomeness

词汇来源

Old English wynsum "agreeable, pleasant," from wynn "pleasure, delight," from Proto-Germanic *wunjo- (source also of Old Saxon wunnia, Old High German wunja, German Wonne "joy, delight"), from PIE root *wen- (1) "to desire, strive for" + -sum (see -some (1)). Apparently surviving only in northern English dialect for 400 years until revived 18c. by Hamilton, Burns, and other Scottish poets. Similar formation in Old Saxon wunsam, Old High German wunnisam.

近义词

winning, charming, sweet, attractive, pretty, lovable, adorable, appealing, captivating, enchanting, pleasing, delightful, fascinating, lovely, pleasant, agreeable, alluring, amiable, bewitching, ingratiating

反义词

abhorrent, abominable, detestable, hateful, loathsome, odious, uningratiating, unlovable, obnoxious, offensive, nasty, foul, disgusting, repulsive, repellent, unpleasant, repugnant, distasteful, horrid, despicable, awful, unpalatable, dislikeable, horrible, terrible, frightful, hideous, horrendous, undesirable, unacceptable, appalling

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