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Synonyms
quaint (kwānt)

[Middle English, clever, cunning, peculiar, from Old French queinte, cointe, from Latin cognitus past participle of cognōscere, to learn; see cognition.]

adjective: quaint·er, quaint·est. 

  1. 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)
  2. Unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange: quaint dialect words. See synonyms at strange
  3. Cleverly made; artful.

derivatives

quaint́ly
adverb
quaint́ness
noun