| a. | 1. | Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. |
| 2. | Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat. | |
| 3. | Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; |
| Adj. | 1. | quaint - strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities" |
| 2. | quaint - 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"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor" | |
| 3. | quaint - attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots" Synonyms: old-time, olde worlde |