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quaint

[kweynt]

adjective

quainter, quaintest 
  1. having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque.

    a quaint old house.

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  2. strange, peculiar, or unusual in an interesting, pleasing, or amusing way.

    a quaint sense of humor.

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  3. skillfully or cleverly made.

  4. Obsolete.wise; skilled.



quaint

/ ɱɪԳ /

adjective

  1. attractively unusual, esp in an old-fashioned style

    a quaint village

  2. odd, peculiar, or inappropriate

    a quaint sense of duty

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • quaintly adverb
  • quaintness noun
  • ˈܲԳٲԱ noun
  • ˈܲԳٱ adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of quaint1

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English queinte, from Old French, variant of cointe “clever, pleasing,” from Latin cognitus “learned, known,” past participle of Dzō “to learn, become acquainted”; cognition
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Word History and Origins

Origin of quaint1

C13 (in the sense: clever): from Old French cointe, from Latin cognitus known, from cognoscere to ascertain
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In our search to find out more, we pull up in Dover's quaint downtown.

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Or perhaps you read it yesterday from an incel on X. So quaint.

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Port Huron is a manufacturing town of less than 30,000 people with a quaint downtown and lots of retail, offering visitors an enticing opportunity for a day-trip.

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Now we come forward to 2020 and it seems almost weird or quaint to believe that anyone could be controlling industry other than shareholders and investors.

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In the face of a new enemy, al-Qaeda, the administration argued that the requirements for decent treatment of wartime detainees outlined in the Geneva Conventions had been rendered “quaint.”

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