quaint
/kweɪnt/
adjective
6 letters1 syllable15 points in Scrabble®17 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS3
ADJECTIVE
1
Attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic).
“houses with quaint thatched roofs”
2
Strange in an interesting or pleasing way.
“quaint dialect words”
“quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities”
3
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”
“came forth a quaint and fearful sight”
WORD FORMS
Related formquaintness
GAME SCORES
Scrabble®15 points
Words With Friends®17 points
Double word30 points
Triple word45 points
GOOD TO KNOW
Pig Latinuaintqay
Starts & ends withQ … T
Syllablesquaint
SYNONYMS & RELATED7
SAME LETTERS, DIFFERENT WORDS
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