quaintly

quaint  (kwnt)

adj. quaint·er, quaint·est

1. Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way: "Sarah Orne Jewett . . . was dismissed by one critic as merely a New England old maid who wrote quaint, plotless sketches of late 19th-century coastal Maine" (James McManus).

2. Unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange: quaint dialect words. See Synonyms at strange.

3. Cleverly made; artful.

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[Middle English, clever, cunning, peculiar, from Old French queinte, cointe, from Latin cognitus, past participle of cognscere, to learn; see cognition.]

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quaintly adv.

quaintness n.

Thesaurus

Adv.	1.	quaintly - in a strange but not unpleasant manner; "the old lady expressed herself somewhat quaintly"
	2.	quaintly - in a quaint old-fashioned manner; "the room was quaintly furnished"

Translations

quaintly [ˈkweɪntlɪ] ADV

1. (= charmingly) [decorated] → pintorescamente
the building was quaintly old-fashioned → el edificio parecía anticuado y pintoresco

2. (= oddly) the quaintly named town of Normal → el pueblo denominado con el curioso nombre de Normal
this may seem a quaintly old-fashioned idea → puede que esta idea parezca extraña y anticuada
he described it quaintly as → le dio la curiosa calificación de ...

quaintly [ˈkweɪntli] adv [described] → de façon pittoresque
quaintly named ... → au nom pittoresque de ...

quaintly

adv

(= picturesquely) → malerisch, idyllisch; decorated, finished → malerisch, urig

written → schnurrig; dressed → putzig; nicknamed → originell; old-fashioned → schnurrig, kurios, skurril; their little daughter got up and danced so quaintly that … → ihr Töchterchen ist aufgestanden und hat so drollig getanzt, dass …

quaintly [ˈkweɪntlɪ] adv (see adj) → in modo strano, in modo bizzarro, pittorescamente