quaintadjective
uk/kweɪnt/us/kweɪnt/C2 attractive because of being unusual and especially old-fashioned:
a quaint old cottage
Quaint can also be used to show that you do not approve of something, especially an opinion, belief, or way of behaving, because it is strange or old-fashioned:
"What a quaint idea!" she said, laughing at him.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Strange, suspicious and unnatural
- aberrant
- abnormal
- add
- bizarre
- curious
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- kinky
- kooky
- like nothing (else) on earth idiom
- like nothing on earth idiom
- not add up idiom
- peculiarly
- rum
- sicko
- singularity
- singularly
- strange
- suss
- whacky
- whimsical
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Old or old-fashioned
quaintly
adverb uk/ˈkweɪnt.li/us/ˈkweɪnt.li/
quaintness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈkweɪnt.nəs/us/ˈkweɪnt.nəs/