单词 | quaintness |
释义 | quaintness (once / 8248 pages) n WORD FAMILY quaintness: quaintnesses+/quaint: quainter, quaintest, quaintly, quaintness USAGE EXAMPLESThey said they were drawn to the island’s “quaintness” and detachment from the mainland. Wall Street Journal(Aug 25, 2016) As someone reared in a sea of My Little Ponies and Snoopy Sno-Cone Machines, I must have found all of this Weimar-era quaintness strangely appealing. New York Times(Jul 16, 2016) But over the last decade or so, compared with innovative Copenhagen and oil-rich Oslo, Stockholm’s splendor had dwindled to quaintness. Wall Street Journal(Jun 02, 2016) 1n the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned its quaintness was appealing Hyper old-fashionedness the property of being no longer fashionable 2n strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness Hyper strangeness, unfamiliarity unusualness as a consequence of not being well known |
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