首页英语词典quaintquaint英英释意

quaint

英[kweɪnt] 美[kwent]
  • adj. 古雅的;奇怪的;离奇有趣的;做得很精巧的

英英释意


1. strange in an interesting or pleasing way;
"quaint dialect words"
"quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
2. 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. attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic);
"houses with quaint thatched roofs"
"a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"