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Meaning of 'quaint' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Quaint [ a.]
- Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.
- Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.
- Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression.

Meaning of 'quaint' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . quaint [ s]
Meaning (1):
- very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance
Example in sentence:
  • a quaint sense of humor;
  • came forth a quaint and fearful sight;
  • the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name
Meaning (2):
- attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
Example in sentence:
  • a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots;
  • houses with quaint thatched roofs
Meaning (3):
- strange in an interesting or pleasing way
Example in sentence:
  • quaint dialect words;
  • quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities

Nearby Words:

qua qua-bird quab quacha quack quack grass quackeries quackery quacking quackish

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