Homely

Definition: Homely

Homely

Adjective

1. Lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face".

2. Having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "homely" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references)

Note: Homely \Home"ly\, adjective. [Comparative Homelier; superlative Homeliest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Homely

Commonalty

Adjective: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes; (unimportant); homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish.

Plainness

Adjective: plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely, homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-fact, natural, prosaic.

Simplicity

Adjective: simple, plain; homely, homespun; ordinary, household.

Ugliness

Adjective: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned); homely; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless; not fit to be seen;

Vulgarity

Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic,

Crosswords: Homely

No, you're homely as a mule's butt (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

It's not Kansas, and you're way too homely to be Auntie Em. Come here, Toto (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

Books

• Homely Girl, a Life (reference)

• Homely Girl, a Life: And Other Stories (reference)

• Homely Lilla (reference)

• Homer the Homely Hound Dog (reference)

• Hortense the Homely Hippo (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Honey I'm Homely (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

He thought no more of this girl now that she was handsome than he had thought of her when she was homely.

Expressions using "homely": homely atmosphere ♦ homely girl. Additional references.

Beginning with "homely": homely-looking.

Albanian

praktike, mikpritës (entertainer, hospitable, host), jo i pashëm, i zakonshëm (accustomed, common, common or garden, commonplace, consuetudinary, current, customary, daily, day to day, everyday, familiar, general, habitual, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, ready made, regular, routine, second best, standard, usual, vulgar, wonted, workaday), i thjeshtë (abecedarian, artless, austere, bare, chaste, childlike, common, easy, elementary, enlisted, folksy, foolproof, Hick, home-bred, homespun, humble, inelaborate, informal, ingenuous, inornate, mere, modest, native, natural, neat, not mingled, onefold, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, private, pure, quotidian, rude, russet, rustic, simple, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, very), i shpëlarë (emasculate, faded, rinsed, vapid, wishy washy), i rëndomtë (banal, base, coarse, common, commonplace, copybook, corny, everyday, habitual, hackneyed, mundane, ordinary, plain, platitudinous, prose, prosy, second rate, substandard, trite, vulgar), i përditshëm (daily, day to day, diurnal, everyday, ferial, mundane, ordinary, quotidian), familjar (domesticated, family, homelike, of family). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مألوف (accustomed, beaten, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, frequent, habitual, household, ordinary, orthodox, popular, regular, usual, vulgar), ‏قبيح (disgusting, fiend, hideous, monstrous, odious, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, ugly, unattractive, unsightly), ‏غير مزخرف (unsophisticated), ‏عطوف (appealing, benignant, good hearted, humane, kind hearted, kindly, large-hearted, loving, matey, motherly, open-hearted, sympathetic, whole-hearted), ‏عائلي (familial, family, homelike), ‏طبيعي (inborn, inbred, indigenous, natural, naturalist, naturalistic, normal, physical, primitive, spontaneous, straight, temperamental, unaffected), ‏بيتي (home-made), ‏بسيط (attic, chaste, crude, down to earth, elementary, honest, innocent, low-browed, lowly, mere, modest, naive, natural, pastoral, petty, plain, primitive, provincial, rustic, silly, simple, simple minded, sparing, straightforward, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unvarnished, with distortion), ‏بشع (atrocious, grasping, grievous, gruesome, hideous, horrid, shapeless, ugly, ungainly, unhandsome, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уютен (cosy, cozy, homelike, snug, tight), грозничък, обикновен (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, everyday, familiar, frequent, humdrum, low, matter of fact, mere, moderate, mundane, ordinary, plain, quiet, regular, routine, run of the mill, simple, trite, trivial, unaffected, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, wonted), домашен (domestic, fireside, home, home-bred, homelike, home-made, homespun, homey, homy, house, household, indoor). (various references)

Chinese 

亲切 (graciousness, kind). (various references)

Czech

tuctový (everyday), prostý (austere, chaste, coarse, frugal, naked, plain, rustic, simple, single, sober, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unworldly, vulgar), ordinérní (common, tawdry), nevzhledný (unsightly), jednoduchý (easy, elementary, mere, open and shut, simple, single, singular, unsophisticated), domácký (home-loving), útulný (comfy, cosy, cozy, snug). (various references)

Farsi 

فاقدجمال , مثل خانه , زشت (Awkward, Awry, Backhand, Bad, Bawdy, Black, Execrable, Gash, Gross, Hank, Heinous, Hideous, Horrid, Invidious, Maladroit, Nefarious, Offensive, Ugly, Uncouth, Unfavorable, Ungainly, Ungraceful, Unhandsome), خودمانی وصمیمانه , بدگل (Ugly). (various references)

Finnish

ruma (plain, ugly, unattractive), kodikas (cosy, snug). (various references)

French

simple (honest), sans façon, sans charme, ordinaire (household), naturel, laide, familial, comme à la maison. (various references)

German

häuslich (domestic). (various references)

Greek 

σπιτικόσ (home-made), άσχημοσ (black, nasty, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unlovely, unshightly, unsightly), απλόσ (mere, plain, simple, touchable, unceremonious, unstudied). (various references)

Hebrew 

משפחתי (familial, familiar, family, intimate), ביתי (domestic, homey), צנוע (demure, humble, lowly, meek, modest, neat, prude, unassuming). (various references)

Hungarian

meghitt (familiar, cosy, cozy). (various references)

Indonesian

sederhana (artless, austere, frugal, humble, plain, simple, temperate, unostentatious, unpretentious). (various references)

Italian

semplice (simple, ingenuous, single, straightforward), modesto (modest), familiare (familiar, relative), domestico (domestic, footman, gyp, home, homebred, household, man, manservant, menial, servant, tame), casalingo (domestic, home, home-made, household, plain), alla buona. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

不細工 (clumsy, plain, poor shape). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぶさいく (clumsy, plain, poor shape). (various references)

Manx

thieoil (domestic), cheeroil (agrarian, countrified, countrylike, racy). (various references)

Norwegian

stygg (nasty, ugly), enkel. (various references)

Pig Latin

omelyhay.(various references)

Portuguese

singelo (simple, single), simples (simple, mere), r�stico (hawbuck, hick, hind, ill-mannered), modesto (modest), grosseiro (coarse, rude), desajeitado (awkward). (various references)

Romanian

simplu (simple, straightforward), plat (bald, commonplace, flat, insipid), modest (cheap, demure, diffident, discreet, frugal, grave, humble, humbly, low, lowly, maiden, maidenly, modest, plain, quakerish, quiet, retiring, simple, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpretending, unpretentious), lipsit de frumuseţe (uncomely), fãrã fast, casnic (domestic, domesticated, family, home, home-made, household, housewifely, menial, settled). (various references)

Russian 

невзрачный (insignificant, plain, unpresentable), непритязательный (unassuming), простой (simple, unceremonious), домашний (domiciliary, homelike, homey, homy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ružan (ill-favored, ill-favoured, misshapen, ugly, uncomely, unhandsome, unshapely, unsightly), prost (coarse, common, commoner, easy, folksy, homespun, inurbane, low-bred, lowbrow, mere, rude, simple, trivial, underbred, vulgar), porodičan (family). (various references)

Spanish

sencillo (simple, straightforward), poco atractivo (off putting, unattractive), llano (flat, plain), feo (ugly, nasty), familiar (relative), doméstico (domestic), casero (landlord), acogedor (cheery, cosy, cozy, friendly, snug). (various references)

Swedish

oansenlig (inconsiderable), ful (ugly, unseemly, unsightly), enkel (single, homespun, plain, primitive, simple). (various references)

Thai

เรียบง่าย (naked, rustic). (various references)

Turkish

sade (artless, austere, bald, bare, chaste, frugal, frugally, homespun, just, mere, merely, only, plain, pure, rustic, severe, simple, simplificative, sober, stark, unadorned, unmixed, unsophisticated), gösterişsiz (chaste, conservative, fluffy, homespun, modest, plain, poor looking, rustic, simple, sober, undemanding, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious), basit (basic, countrified, crude, easy, elemental, elementary, everyday, facile, foolproof, frugal, frugally, humble, jejune, potty, primitive, simple, simplex, simplificative, simplistic, small, straightforward, undemanding, vulgar), çirkin (beastly, eldritch, flagrant, foul, god-awful, heinous, hideous, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, misshapen, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, plain, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unattractive, uncomely, uncouth, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Ukrainian

грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, boarish, broad, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, gross, hard boiled, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, rude, scratchy, shaggy, surly, swinish, truculent, uncouth), невибагливий (lowbrow, promiscuous, unassuming, unpretending), неотесаний (backwoods, barbaric, bearish, chuffy, crude, home-bred, oafish, ramshackle, woolly, wooly), звичайний (accustomed, average, common, common or garden, consuetudinary, conventional, customary, everyday, frequent, mediocre, natural, normal, ordinary, positive, regulation, rife, run of the mill, uneventful, unexceptional, usual), затишний (chimney corner, cosy, couth, cozy, homelike, homey, homy, snug), домашній (barn-door, home, homelike, homey, homy, pet). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô duyên (charmless, ill-favoured, unlovely), không khách sáo, giản dị (modest, unostentatious), chất phác; không màu mè. (various references)

Welsh

cartrefol (civil, domestic, home). (various references)

rustico, rusticus. (various references)

hom. (various references)

Misspellings

"Homely" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahomely, Hamal, Hamelyn, hammelis, hammily, hamuli, hemel, Hemely, hengeli, homaly, homeily, homel, homile, homilie, homley, homly, Hommels, hommil, homoly, honely, honly, hopely, horely, hotely, humil, humily, Iommelli, Jommelli, Moheli, nonely. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: holey, homey, hoyle, mohel.

-2 letters: elmy, helm, helo, hole, holm, holy, home, homy, mole, moly, ylem.

-3 letters: elm, hem, hey, hoe, hoy, ley, lye, mel, mho, mol, ohm, ole, yeh, yom.

-4 letters: eh, el, em, he, hm, ho, lo, me, mo, my, oe, oh, om, oy, ye, yo.

+2 letters: hemolyze, hydromel, mesophyl, methoxyl, motherly, phyllome.

+3 letters: endolymph, hemolymph, hemolyses, hemolysin, hemolysis, hemolytic, hemolyzed, hemolyzes, homolyses, hydromels, mesophyll, mesophyls, mycophile, phyllomes.

+4 letters: endolymphs, handsomely, hematology, hemelytron, hemolymphs, hemolysins, hemolyzing, holoenzyme, hypodermal, lachrymose, lymphocyte, lymphokine, melancholy, mesophylls, methylator, methyldopa, mycophiles, myelopathy, mythologer, nympholept, phlebotomy, polychrome, polytheism.

+5 letters: blameworthy, chrysomelid, collenchyma, entomophily, heartsomely, hematoxylin, holoenzymes, homopolymer, humorlessly, hymnologies, hypokalemia, hypokalemic, hypothermal, lightsomely, loathsomely, lymphocytes, lymphokines, mesophyllic, methodology, methylation, methylators, methyldopas, monophylies, myelopathic, mythologers, mythologies, mythologize, nympholepsy, nympholepts, polychromed, polychromes, polymathies, polytheisms, semimonthly, toothsomely, wholesomely.