quaint
Charming in an old-fashioned way.
quaint in a sentence
- They stayed in a quaint cottage with crooked beams and roses around the door.
- The quaint little sweet shop still weighed humbugs on old brass scales.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to quaint?
- Acharming
- Bordinary
- Cmodern
- Dnew
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A: charming. The other three mean the opposite of quaint.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to quaint?
- Acute
- Bcharming
- Cpicturesque
- Dmodern
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D: modern. The other three mean nearly the same as quaint.
Words that mean something similar
charming, picturesque, cute
Words that mean the opposite
modern, new, ordinary
More words about places & settings
- ravine: A deep, narrow valley with steep sides.
- reek: To smell very strongly and unpleasantly.
- refuge: A safe place to shelter from danger.
- remote: Far away from towns and hard to reach.
- reside: To live in a particular place.
- rugged: Rough, rocky and uneven, or strong and tough.
- rural: To do with the countryside rather than the town.
- rustic: Simple and plain in a way that suits the countryside.
More words to explore
Sitting the 11+ in Kent, Medway or Buckinghamshire?
Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test