adj
Meaning 1
Of a person: cunning, crafty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
quaint
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK, US: kwānt
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UK, US: /kweɪnt/
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UK, US: [khweɪ̯nt]
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rhymes with -eɪnt
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CMU ARPABET: K W EY1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Cleverly made; artfully contrived.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
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adj
Meaning 3
Strange or odd; unusual.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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adj
Meaning 4
Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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adj
Meaning 5
Pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
The vulva.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, obsolete
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adjective satellite
Meaning 7
strange in an interesting or pleasing way
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- quaint dialect words
- quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance- Bill Beatty- Sir Walter Scott
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name
- came forth a quaint and fearful sight
- a quaint sense of humor
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- houses with quaint thatched roofs
- a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: old-time, olde worlde
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English queynte, quoynte, from Anglo-Norman cointe, queinte and Old French cointe (“pretty, clever, knowing”), from Latin cognitus, past participle of cognōscō (“to know”).
Across languages
Translations
80 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 古色古香的 (gǔsègǔxiāng de) — having old-fashioned charm
- Czech: starodávný — having old-fashioned charm
- Czech: pitoreskní — having old-fashioned charm
- Czech: starobylý — having old-fashioned charm
- Dutch: pittoresk — having old-fashioned charm
- Esperanto: pitoreska — having old-fashioned charm
- French: pittoresque — having old-fashioned charm
- French: vieillot — having old-fashioned charm
- Georgian: მიმზიდველი (mimzidveli) — having old-fashioned charm
- German: pittoresk — having old-fashioned charm
- German: malerisch — having old-fashioned charm
- Italian: caratteristico — having old-fashioned charm
- Italian: pittoresco — having old-fashioned charm
- Portuguese: encanto — having old-fashioned charm
- Russian: старомо́дный (staromódnyj) — having old-fashioned charm
- Serbo-Croatian: staromodan — having old-fashioned charm
- Serbo-Croatian: starinski — having old-fashioned charm
- Spanish: pintoresco — having old-fashioned charm
- Swedish: pittoresk — having old-fashioned charm
- Swedish: gammaldags — having old-fashioned charm
- Swedish: sällsam — having old-fashioned charm
- Swedish: gammalmodig — having old-fashioned charm
- Swedish: ovanlig — having old-fashioned charm
- Swedish: sirlig — having old-fashioned charm
- Bulgarian: причудлив (pričudliv) — interestingly strange
- Cornish: koynt — interestingly strange
- Czech: kuriózní — interestingly strange
- Czech: pitoreskní — interestingly strange
- Czech: kouzelný — interestingly strange
- Czech: bizarní — interestingly strange
- Danish: ejendommelig — interestingly strange
- Danish: kuriøs — interestingly strange
- Dutch: merkwaardig — interestingly strange
- Dutch: typisch — interestingly strange
- Esperanto: kurioza — interestingly strange
- Finnish: erikoinen — interestingly strange
- Finnish: outo — interestingly strange
- French: remarquable — interestingly strange
- Georgian: უცნაური (ucnauri) — interestingly strange
- Georgian: საკვირველი (saḳvirveli) — interestingly strange
- German: kurios — interestingly strange
- German: wunderlich — interestingly strange
- German: komisch — interestingly strange
- Italian: curioso — interestingly strange
- Italian: bizzarro — interestingly strange
- Portuguese: curioso — interestingly strange
- Russian: причудливый (pričudlivyj) — interestingly strange
- Serbo-Croatian: čudan — interestingly strange
- Spanish: curioso — interestingly strange
- Swedish: egendomlig — interestingly strange
- Swedish: kuriös — interestingly strange
- Swedish: märkvärdig — interestingly strange
- Swedish: sällsam — interestingly strange
- Bulgarian: ексцентричен (ekscentričen) — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Czech: nevhodný — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Czech: nepříhodný — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Czech: nesourodý — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Czech: divný — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Czech: prapodivný — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Czech: prazvláštní — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Danish: løjerlig — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Dutch: onlogisch — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Dutch: ongepast — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Dutch: onsamenhangend — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- French: incongru — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- French: inconvenant — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- French: malséant — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- French: dissonant — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Italian: inappropriato — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Italian: vano — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Serbo-Croatian: neprikladan — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Swedish: sirlig — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Swedish: sällsam — incongruous, inappropriate or illogical
- Czech: háklivý — fastidious
- Czech: úzkostlivý — fastidious
- Dutch: veeleisend — fastidious
- Dutch: kieskeurig — fastidious
- French: exigeant — fastidious
- French: délicat — fastidious
- Spanish: fastidioso — fastidious