quainter
- 1Comparative of quaint.
The side streets, lined with tiny bookshops and gas lamps, felt quainter than the busy main square.
The new owners kept the quainter features of the inn, such as the creaking stairs and the brass bell at the front desk.
Note
Both endings work: quainter and more quaint mean the same, and they can share a sentence, as in D. S. Barrie's 1951 Railway Magazine survey, where standardization disposes of "the quainter and more picturesque anomalies." The comparative measures the charming, old-fashioned sense; the clever, sly and fussy meanings of quaint are obsolete, and the merely odd one is dialectal.
quainter is a form of quaint
quaint, adjective: Unusual in a pleasing way, especially through having an old-fashioned charm. Full entry
- Spelling
- quaint → quainter: add -er
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