[syn: homelike, homely, homey, homy]
3. plain and unpretentious;
- Example: "homely truths"
- Example: "letters to his son full of homely advice"
- Example: "homely fare"
4. without artificial refinement or elegance;
- Example: "plain homely furniture"
- Example: "homely manners"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Homely \Home"ly\, a. [Compar. Homelier; superl. Homeliest.]
[From Home, n.]
1. Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home;
domestic; familiar; intimate. [Archaic]
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With all these men I was right homely, and communed
with, them long and oft. --Foxe.
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Their homely joys, and destiny obscure. --Gray.
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2. Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a
homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely
manners.
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Now Strephon daily entertains
His Chloe in the homeliest strains. --Pope.
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3. Of plain or coarse features; uncomely; ugly; -- usually
used of people, especially women; -- contrary to
handsome.
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None so homely but loves a looking-glass. --South.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Homely \Home"ly\, adv.
Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed. [R.]
--Spenser.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
homely
adj 1: lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely
child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely";
"a plain girl with a freckled face" [syn: homely,
plain]
2: having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely
everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn" [syn: homelike,
homely, homey, homy]
3: plain and unpretentious; "homely truths"; "letters to his son
full of homely advice"; "homely fare"
4: without artificial refinement or elegance; "plain homely
furniture"; "homely manners"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
204 Moby Thesaurus words for "homely":
Attic, Babbittish, Bohemian, Philistine, Spartan, affable, amiable,
ascetic, austere, bald, bare, baseborn, basic, beautiless,
below the salt, blemished, blotted, bourgeois, cacophonic,
cacophonous, campy, candid, casual, chaste, cheerful, classic,
classical, cockney, comfortable, comfy, commodious, common,
commonplace, congenial, contented, convenient, cordial, cosy, cozy,
cushioned, cushiony, cushy, defaced, degage, direct, disfigured,
domestic, dry, dull, dysphemistic, dysphemized, easeful, easy,
easygoing, elementary, essential, everyday, familiar, folksy,
frank, free and easy, friendly, fundamental, garden,
garden-variety, general, gracious, haymish, high-camp, homelike,
homespun, homey, homish, homogeneous, household, humble,
humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, ill-favored, indivisible,
inelegant, informal, inglorious, innocuous, intimate, irreducible,
irregular, kitschy, lean, least, lived-in, loose, low, low-camp,
lowborn, lowbred, lowest, lowliest, lowly, luxurious, marred,
matter-of-fact, mean, mere, modest, monolithic, natural, neat,
nonclerical, nondescript, of a piece, offhand, offhanded, open,
ordinary, peaceful, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plebeian,
poor, pop, popular, primal, primary, prosaic, prosing, prosy,
public, pure, pure and simple, relaxed, relaxing, reposeful,
restful, roomy, rude, rustic, serene, severe, shabby-genteel,
short on looks, simon-pure, simple, simple-speaking, single, small,
snug, sober, sociable, soft, spare, spoiled, stark,
straightforward, teachable, third-estate, tranquil, uglified, ugly,
ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unadorned, unaesthetic, unaffected,
unalluring, unassuming, unattractive, unbeauteous, unbeautiful,
unceremonious, uncluttered, uncomely, unconstrained,
unconventional, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undistinguished,
unelaborate, ungarnished, ungenteel, unhandsome, uniform,
unimaginative, unimportant, unlovely, unofficial, unornamented,
unostentatious, unpleasing, unpoetical, unpretending,
unpretentious, unpretty, unsightly, unsophisticated, unstudied,
unvarnished, vernacular, vulgar, warm, workaday, workday