Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.
- 2adjective
Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.
- 3adjective
Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression.
- 4adjective
strange in an interesting or pleasing way
"quaint dialect words"
"quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
- 5adjective
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"
- 6adjective
attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
"houses with quaint thatched roofs"
"a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"
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