QUAINT Synonyms

• so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

• able to attract interest or draw favorable attention

• (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings

• pleasing or delighting

• possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers

• eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns)

• beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

• greatly pleasing or entertaining

• capturing interest as if by a spell

• capable of arousing and holding the attention

• capturing interest as if by a spell

• excellent and delightful in all respects

• suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene

• unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons

• an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure)

• (informal) strikingly unconventional

• out of fashion

• beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

• unique or specific to a person or thing or category

• markedly different from the usual; special

• characteristic of one only; distinctive or special

• suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture

• strikingly expressive

• a fashion reminiscent of the past

• affecting things past

• an unsophisticated country person

• characteristic of rural life

• awkwardly simple and provincial

• characteristic of the fields or country

• radically distinctive and without equal

• (followed by `to') applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality

• the single one of its kind

• highly unusual or rare but not the single instance

• not usual or common or ordinary

• being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird

• not commonly encountered

• a season's yield of wine from a vineyard

• the oldness of wines

• determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

• attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)