winning

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Of or relating to the act of winning.
• adjective Successful; victorious.
• adjective Attractive; charming.
• noun The act of one that wins; victory.
• noun Something won, especially money.
• noun A section of a mine that has been recently prepared or opened for working.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In metallurgy, same as beneficiation.
• Successful in contending, competing, attaining, influencing, or gaining over; hence, especially, taking; attractive; charming.
• noun The act of one who wins, in any sense.
• noun That which is won; that which is gained by effort, conquest, or successful competition; earnings; profit; gain: generally in the plural.
• noun In coal-mining, a shaft or pit which is being sunk to win or open a bed of coal; an opening of any kind by which coal has been won; a bed of coal ready for mining (see win, transitive verb, 9); sometimes, also, a part of a coal-mine, as distinguished from another portion from which it is separated by a barrier.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming.
• noun The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition.
• noun The money, etc., gained by success in competition or contest, esp, in gambling; -- usually in the plural.
• noun A new opening.
• noun The portion of a coal field out for working.
• noun (Mining) an excavation for exploration, in post-and-stall working.
• noun the post, or goal, at the end of a race.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb Present participle of win.
• adjective That constitutes a win.
• adjective That leads to success.
• adjective Attractive.
• noun The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition.
• noun The money, etc., gained by success in competition or contest, especially in gambling.
• noun mining A new opening.
• noun The portion of a coalfield out for working.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective having won
• adjective very attractive; capturing interest
• noun succeeding with great difficulty