English Dictionary

quaint

/kweɪnt/

adj

(obsolete) Of a person: cunning, crafty. / (obsolete) Cleverly made; artfully contrived. / (now dialectal) Strange or odd; unusual.

He had a quaint smile on his face.

意味（1）

(obsolete) Of a person: cunning, crafty.

But you, my Lord, were glad to be imploy'd, / To shew how queint an Orator you are.

意味（2）

(obsolete) Cleverly made; artfully contrived.

describe races and games, / Or tilting furniture, imblazon'd shields, / Impresses quaint, caparisons and steeds, / Bases and tinsel trappings […].

意味（3）

(now dialectal) Strange or odd; unusual.

Till that there entered on the other side / A straunger knight, from whence no man could reed, / In quyent disguise, full hard to be descride […].

意味（4）

(obsolete) Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim.

She, nothing quaint / Nor 'sdeignfull of so homely fashion, / Sith brought she was now to so hard constraint, / Sate downe upon the dusty ground anon […].

意味（5）

Pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm.

I admire all that quaint, old-fashioned politeness; it is much more to my taste than modern ease; modern ease often disgusts me.