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homely
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
homelier; homeliest
homelier; homeliest
Learner's definition of HOMELY
1
US : not pretty or handsome : plain or unattractive不漂亮的；普通的
- She has a homely face.她相貌平平。
- He's a bit homely but nice.他相貌平平，但心地善良。
2
British : plain and simple in an appealing or pleasant way简朴的；温馨的
- the homely appeal of farm life简朴的农场生活的魅力
- The hotel has a homely [=(US) homey] atmosphere.这家旅馆环境温馨。
— homeliness
noun [noncount]
Synonyms
Example Sentences
She has a homely face. He's a bit homely but nice. the homely appeal of farm life
Recent Examples on the Web Hampton Court—a homely palace, like a kitchen garden for Versailles. 
Mavis Gallant, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022 These homely delights, Risbridger asserts, will sustain us through dark times. Jennifer Reese, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2022 Catherine Zeta-Jones got her start in this homely British series set in South East England in the 1950s. Amy Mackelden, ELLE, 30 June 2022 The plot, set in frostbitten Wisconsin in 1907, was about a widower seeking a practical and homely mail-order bride and instead getting an ominous beauty. Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 14 May 2022 The reduced size makes for a truly bizarre and uncanny sight — highlighting its grim facades, its willfully homely form and the mammoth scale of its LED billboards, which have all the design grace of the drunk guy wearing a lampshade at the party. Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022 The look is soft, opaque at times, doing away with hi-def graphics for something more childlike, homely and calm — a video game that will likely inspire art that will grace many a parent’s fridge. Todd Martens Game Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2022 The measure of its slipping prestige is that one tends to think of it only in connection with homely children and with United States senators who have been defeated, preferably in the primary, for re-election. Joan Didion, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2014 It's made of solid brass because life's too short for homely plastic watering cans. Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Dec. 2021 See More
Mavis Gallant, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022 These homely delights, Risbridger asserts, will sustain us through dark times. Jennifer Reese, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2022 Catherine Zeta-Jones got her start in this homely British series set in South East England in the 1950s. Amy Mackelden, ELLE, 30 June 2022 The plot, set in frostbitten Wisconsin in 1907, was about a widower seeking a practical and homely mail-order bride and instead getting an ominous beauty. Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 14 May 2022 The reduced size makes for a truly bizarre and uncanny sight — highlighting its grim facades, its willfully homely form and the mammoth scale of its LED billboards, which have all the design grace of the drunk guy wearing a lampshade at the party. Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022 The look is soft, opaque at times, doing away with hi-def graphics for something more childlike, homely and calm — a video game that will likely inspire art that will grace many a parent’s fridge. Todd Martens Game Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2022 The measure of its slipping prestige is that one tends to think of it only in connection with homely children and with United States senators who have been defeated, preferably in the primary, for re-election. Joan Didion, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2014 It's made of solid brass because life's too short for homely plastic watering cans. Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Dec. 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English homly, homely "belonging to a household, used at home, close, intimate, meek, tame, common, unattractive," from hom home entry 1 + -ly -ly entry 1
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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