quaintly

1. 1.

   in a strange but not unpleasant manner

   “the old lady expressed herself somewhat quaintly”
2. 2.

   in a quaint old-fashioned manner

   “the room was quaintly furnished”

Questions about quaintly

What does quaintly mean?

quaintly means "in a strange but not unpleasant manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quaintly?

quaintly has 2 syllables: quaint-ly. The stress falls on "quaint". In IPA it is /ˈkweɪntli/.

Is quaintly a common word?

quaintly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.