Adjective: quaint (quainter,quaintest) kweynt
- Attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
"houses with quaint thatched roofs";
- old-time, olde worlde
- Strange in an interesting or pleasing way
"quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
- Very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance
"a quaint sense of humour"; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"
Derived forms: quaintest, quainter
See also: fashionable, hip [informal], oddball, strange, stylish, unusual
Encyclopedia: Quaint