quaint meaning and definition

QUAINT adjective

Definition of quaint (adjective)

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