What is quaint?
What is quaint?
- 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).
- Unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange: quaint dialect words. See Synonyms at strange.
- Cleverly made; artful.