Antonyms for QUAINT
kweɪntquaint

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. quaint

   Antique refers to an ancient, antiquated to a discarded style. Antique is that which is either ancient in fact or ancient in style. The reference is to the style rather than to the age. We can speak of the antique architecture of a church just built. The difference between antiquated and antique is not in the age, for a Puritan style may be scorned as antiquated, while a Roman or Renaissance style may be prized as antique. The antiquated is not so much out of date as out of vogue. Old-fashioned may be used approvingly or contemptuously. In the latter case it becomes a synonym for antiquated; in the good sense it approaches the meaning of antique, but indicates less duration. We call a wide New England fireplace old-fashioned; a coin of the Cæsars, antique. Quaint combines the idea of age with a pleasing oddity; as, a quaint gambrel-roofed house. Antiquated is sometimes used of persons in a sense akin to superannuated. The antiquated person is out of style and out of sympathy with the present generation by reason of age; the superannuated person is incapacitated for present activities by reason of age. Compare OLD.

   Antonyms:
   fashionable, fresh, modern, modish, new, recent, stylish

   Synonyms:
   ancient, antiquated, antique, old-fashioned, superannuated

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. quaint

   Antonyms:
   commonplace, ordinary, usual, coarse, common, modern, modish, fashionable, dowdy

   Synonyms:
   curious, recondite, abstruse, elegant, nice, affected, whimsical, odd, antique, archaic, fanciful, singular, old-fashioned

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. quaintadjective

   strange in an interesting or pleasing way

   "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"

   Antonyms:
   familiar, unfashionable, unstylish

   Synonyms:
   old-time, olde worlde

2. quaintadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   familiar, unstylish, unfashionable

   Synonyms:
   old-time, olde worlde

3. old-time, quaint, olde worldeadjective

   attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)

   "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"

   Antonyms:
   unfashionable, familiar, unstylish

   Synonyms:
   old-time, quaint, olde worlde

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. quaintadjective

   Synonyms:
   fanciful, whimsical, odd, curious, grotesque, old-fashioned

How to use QUAINT in a sentence?

1. Stephen DiMare:

   I think people enjoy visiting St. Augustine because it is quintessentially quaint, it’s European with tight buildings and narrow streets; it sits in a harbor with a coquina fort that looks past the barrier islands toward the open ocean.

2. Clive Moore:

   A current joke is that people lament the decline of Honiara's quaint Honiaras Chinatown, which is no longer central, but then others say it does not matter as the whole of Honiara is Honiaras Chinatown now.

3. John Jay Chapman:

   If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

4. James Joyce:

   Across the page the numbers moved in grave morrice, in the mummery of their letters, wearing quaint caps of squares and cubes.

5. Andy Carroll:

   This generation sees letters as a very quaint, bygone thing that people used to do, but what they contain is some of the most extraordinary, most powerful sentiments and emotions because everything is more vibrant through the lens of warfare.

How to pronounce QUAINT?

How to say QUAINT in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency