Difference between Quaint and Strange

What is the difference between Quaint and Strange?

Quaint as an adjective is having old-fashioned charm. while Strange as an adjective is not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.

Quaint

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having old-fashioned charm. Strange or odd in an interesting, pleasing, or amusing way. Highly incongruous, inappropriate, or illogical; naive, unreasonable -- usually used ironically. Characterized by cleverness or ingenuity; skillfully wrought or artfully contrived. Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious.

Example sentence: Each year, in my quaint efforts to send out paper holiday cards with personal messages, I probably discard one for every three I actually manage to put in the mail. The reason is that my handwriting is now less legible than it was when I was in the second grade.

Strange

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.

Example sentence: It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

We hope you now know whether to use Quaint or Strange in your sentence.

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