English-Thai Dictionary

quaint

ADJ ฉลาด  wise skill cha-lad

 

quaint

ADJ ซึ่ง มีเสน่ห์ แบบ โบรา ณๆ  archaic picturesque sueng-me-sa-nea-beab-bo-rab

 

quaint

ADJ น่า ดึงดูด แบบ แปลกๆ  odd strange na-duang-dud-beab-preak-preak

 

quaintly

ADV อย่างฉลาด  อย่างชาญฉลาด  อย่าง ชำนาญ  yang-cha-lad

 

quaintness

N ความ ฉลาด  kwam-cha-lad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

QUAINT

a.[The latter word would lead us to refer quaint to the Latin accinctus, ready, but Skinner thinks it more probably from comptus, neat, well dressed. ] 1. Nice; scrupulously and superfluously exact; having petty elegance; as a quaint phrase; a quaint fashion.
To show how quaint an orator you are.
2. Subtle; artful. Obs.
3. Fine-spun; artfully framed.
4. Affected; as quaint fopperies.
5. In common use, odd; fanciful; singular; and so used by Chaucer.

 

QUAINTLY

adv. 1. Nicely; exactly; with petty neatness or spruceness; as hair more quaintly curled.
2. Artfully.
Breathe his faults so quaintly.
3. Ingeniously; with dexterity.
I quaintly stole a kiss.

 

QUAINTNESS

n. 1. Niceness; petty neatness or elegance.
There is a majesty in simplicity, which is far above the quaintness of wit.
2. Oddness; peculiarity.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

QUAINT

Quaint, a. Etym: [OE. queint, queynte, coint, prudent, wise, cunning, pretty, odd, OF. cointe cultivated, amiable, agreeable, neat, fr. L. cognitus known, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con + noscere (for gnoscere ) to know. See Know, and cf. Acquaint, Cognition. ]

 

1. Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. [Obs. ] Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. Chaucer.

 

2. Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat. [Archaic ] " The queynte ring. " " His queynte spear. " Chaucer. " A shepherd young quaint. " Chapman. Every look was coy and wondrous quaint. Spenser. To show bow quaint an orator you are. Shak.

 

3. Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression. Some stroke of quaint yet simple pleasantry. Macaulay. An old, long-faced, long-bodied servant in quaint livery. W. Irving.

 

Syn. -- Quaint, Odd, Antique. Antique is applied to that which has come down from the ancients, or which is made to imitate some ancient work of art. Odd implies disharmony, incongruity, or unevenness. An odd thing or person is an exception to general rules of calculation and procedure, or expectation and common experience. In the current use of quaint, the two ideas of odd and antique are combined, and the word is commonly applied to that which is pleasing by reason of both these qualities. Thus, we speak of the quaint architecture of many old buildings in London; or a quaint expression, uniting at once the antique and the fanciful.

 

QUAINTISE

Quain "tise, n. Etym: [OF. cointise.]

 

1. Craft; subtlety; cunning. [Obs. ] Chaucer. R. of Glouces.

 

2. Elegance; beauty. [Obs. ] Chaucer.

 

QUAINTLY

QUAINTLY Quaint "ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a quaint manner. Shak.

 

QUAINTNESS

QUAINTNESS Quaint "ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality of being quaint. Pope.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

quaint

quaint |kwānt kweɪnt | ▶adjective attractively unusual or old-fashioned: quaint country cottages | a quaint old custom. DERIVATIVES quaint ly adverb, quaint ness noun 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 cent ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

quaint

quaint |kweɪnt | ▶adjective attractively unusual or old-fashioned: quaint country cottages | a quaint old custom. DERIVATIVES quaintly adverb, quaintness noun 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 cent. ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

quaint

quaint adjective 1 a quaint town: picturesque, charming, sweet, attractive, old-fashioned, old-world, cunning; pseudoarchaic olde, olde worlde. ANTONYMS ugly, modern. 2 quaint customs: unusual, different, out of the ordinary, curious, eccentric, quirky, bizarre, whimsical, unconventional; informal offbeat. ANTONYMS normal, ordinary.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

quaint

quaint adjective 1 narrow streets lead to a quaint bridge over the river: picturesque, charming, sweet, attractive, pleasantly old-fashioned, old-fashioned, old-world, toytown; N. Amer. cunning; Brit. informal twee, arty-crafty; pseudo-archaic olde, olde worlde. ANTONYMS modern; ugly. 2 Polybius comments on the quaint customs of the Romans: unusual, different, out of the ordinary, out of the way, unfamiliar, curious, eccentric, quirky, bizarre, zany, whimsical, fanciful, idiosyncratic, unconventional, outlandish, offbeat, off-centre; French outré. ANTONYMS normal, ordinary.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

quaint

quaint /kweɪnt /〖語源は 「ずる賢い 」〗形容詞 ～er ; ～est 1 古風で趣きのある, 風変わりでおもしろい ▸ a quaint and picturesque village 古風で絵から抜け出たように美しい村 .2 ｟おどけて ｠〈考え ふるまいが 〉珍しい, 奇妙な, 変わった ▸ a quaint accent へんてこななまり qu á int ness 名詞

 

quaintly

qu á int ly 副詞 昔風で, 古式ゆかしく ; 妙に .