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   quaint

   /kweɪnt/

   adjective

   • 1. attractively unusual or old-fashioned: "quaint country cottages" Similar picturesquecharmingsweetattractivepleasantly old-fashionedold-fashionedold-worldtoytowncunninginformal:tweearty-craftyarchaic:oldeolde worldeunusualdifferentout of the ordinaryout of the wayunfamiliarcuriouseccentricquirkybizarrezanywhimsicalfancifulidiosyncraticunconventionaloutlandishoffbeatoff-centreoutréOpposite modernuglynormalordinary

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French cointe, from Latin cognitus ‘ascertained’, past participle of cognoscere. The original sense was ‘wise, clever’, also ‘ingenious, cunningly devised’, hence ‘out of the ordinary’ and the current sense (late 18th century).

   Derivatives

   • 1. quaintness noun

   Scrabble Points: 15

   • Q

     10

   • U

     1

   • A

     1

   • I

     1

   • N

     1

   • T

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