strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
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"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor"
attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots" 同义词:old-time, olde worlde,
其他语种释义
quaintとは意味:quaint adj. 奇抜な. 【副詞】 ◆The respected customs of yesterday now seem merely quaint. 昨日は重んじられていた慣習は今日は風変わりなものとしか思われていないようだ. 【+前置詞】 ◆The words sound quaint to our ears. その言葉はわれわれの耳には風変わりに聞こえる.