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- Dictionaryquaint/kweɪnt/
adjective
- 1. attractively unusual or old-fashioned: "quaint country cottages" Similar Opposite
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QUAINT definition: 1. attractive because of being unusual and especially old-fashioned: 2. Quaint can also be used to…. Learn more.
The meaning of QUAINT is pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar. How to use quaint in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Quaint.
QUAINT meaning: 1. attractive because of being unusual and especially old-fashioned: 2. Quaint can also be used to…. Learn more.
Something that is quaint is attractive because it is unusual and old-fashioned. ...a small, quaint town with narrow streets. That's how concepts like general welfare start to sound quaint in this age.
very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance. “"the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty” “"came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott” “a quaint sense of humor” synonyms: strange, unusual.
Quaint definition: having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque. See examples of QUAINT used in a sentence.
Origin of Quaint. Middle English clever, cunning, peculiar from Old French queinte, cointe from Latin cognitus past participle of cognōscere to learn cognition. From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
