quaint — OAT · Shobdo

quaint

adjective

1 narrow streets lead to a quaint bridge over the river:

picturesque, charming, sweet, attractive, pleasantly old-fashioned, old-fashioned, old-world, toytown;

North American cunning;

British, informal twee, arty-crafty;

archaic olde, olde worlde.

▷antonyms modern; ugly.

2 Polybius comments on the quaint customs of the Romans:

unusual, different, out of the ordinary, out of the way, unfamiliar, curious, eccentric, quirky, bizarre, zany, whimsical, fanciful, idiosyncratic, unconventional, outlandish, offbeat, off-center;

French outré.

▷antonyms normal, ordinary.