Homely

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Homely \Home"ly\, adv.
     Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed. [R.]
     --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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: {plain}]
       2: having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely
          everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn" [syn: {homelike},
           {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"
       [also: {homeliest}, {homelier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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