
adj., quaint·er, quaint·est.
- Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way: "Sarah Orne Jewett . . . was dismissed by one critic as merely a New England old maid who wrote quaint, plotless sketches of late 19th-century coastal Maine" (James McManus).
- Unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange: quaint dialect words. See synonyms at strange.
- Cleverly made; artful.
[Middle English, clever, cunning, peculiar, from Old French queinte, cointe, from Latin cognitus, past participle of cognōscere, to learn. See cognition.]
quaintly quaint'ly adv.quaintness quaint'ness n.









