Word "QUAINT" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
Synonyms:
old-time, olde worlde
Examples:
houses with quaint thatched roofs

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
strange in an interesting or pleasing way
Examples:
quaint dialect words
quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance
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

Crossword Clues for QUAINT

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Daintily odd
Attractively unusual 60s fashion designer taking one in (6)
Don't cover aqua tint; it's charming
Endearingly oldfashioned (6)
Endearingly old-fashioned Mirror Classic 08 Dec 2023
Endearingly old-fashioned (6)
One of several children holds a tango old-fashioned The Guardian Cryptic 18 Oct 2023
Attractively old-fashioned The Telegraph Quick 26 Apr 2023
Queen isn’t commonly old-fashioned The Times Cryptic 19 Sep 2022
Head of quiet university isn’t commonly olde-worlde The Times Cryptic 06 Sep 2022
Attractively old-fashioned Thomas Joseph 29 Aug 2022
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, / Over many a ____ and curious volume” (Edgar Allan Poe) The Times Specialist Sunday 26 Jun 2022
Charmingly old-fashioned designer carries one
Charmingly old-fashioned designer carries one The Guardian Cryptic 22 Jun 2022
Unusual brief on account deletion
Charmingly old-fashioned USA Today 09 Jun 2021
Charmingly old-fashioned Premier Sunday 09 May 2021
Curious question is not badly put
Old-timey Universal 29 Aug 2020
Answer in Quintagram not half odd
Charmingly dated The Washington Post Sunday 15 Sep 2019
Attractively unusual or old-fashioned Irish Times Simplex 29 Aug 2019
Olde-worlde, but not quite antique strangely
Inform being without air-conditioning is old-fashioned The Telegraph Toughie 05 Feb 2019
Attractively unusual The Times Concise 31 May 2018
Picturesque The Telegraph Quick 27 May 2018
Twee The Telegraph Quick 06 May 2018
Charmingly old-fashioned The Times Concise 07 Jan 2018
Quit an organisation that's old fashioned
Charmingly archaic lift, without entrance, keeping popular The Telegraph Toughie 06 Jan 2017
One held by British fashion designer is attractively old-fashioned
Attractively unusual one described by fashion designer The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Apr 2016
Charmingly retro LA Times Daily 08 Jan 2016
Charmingly retro
Like the expression 'Sakes alive!' New York Times 25 Oct 2015
Attractively old-fashioned Thomas Joseph 05 Oct 2015
Like the expression "Sakes alive!"
Stop holding ‘amateur' as meaning ‘lovably odd'
Passé but pleasant
Picturesque and unusual antique missing foot
Like many shops at Disneyland
Like olde shoppes
Charmingly old-fashioned
Old-world
Old-world
Agreeably old-fashioned
Charmingly odd
Charmingly old-fashioned
Charmingly old-fashioned
Like many an inn
Charming
Like many an English inn
Shoppe descriptor
Strange
Old and charming
Plesantly old-fashioned
Charmingly old-fashioned
Antiquated
Picturesque
Fanciful.
Amusingly old-fangled.
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