quaint
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
strange in an interesting or pleasing way
quaint dialect words
Related & opposite
- quaintness derivation
- strange similar to
Sense 2 adjective
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
Related & opposite
- strange similar to
Sense 3 adjective
attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
houses with quaint thatched roofs
Related & opposite
- quaintness derivation
- fashionable similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | quaintness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | strange |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | strange |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | quaintness |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | fashionable |