quaint

quaint is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.
2. adjective. Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.
3. adjective. Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression.
4. adjective. strange in an interesting or pleasing way

   "quaint dialect words"

   "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"

5. adjective. very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance- Bill Beatty- Sir Walter Scott

   "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"

   "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"

6. adjective. attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)

   "houses with quaint thatched roofs"

   "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in quaint:

quanti, quinta

Common word forms

quainter, quaintly, quaintest, quaintise, quaintness

Words from these letters

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