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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Homely \Home"ly\, adjective [Compar. {Homelier}; superl. {Homeliest}.] [From {Home}, noun]
1. Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate. [Archaic]
With all these men I was right homely, and communed with, them long and oft. --Foxe.
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure. --Gray.
2. Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners.
Now Strephon daily entertains His Chloe in the homeliest strains. --Pope.
3. Of plain or coarse features; uncomely; ugly; -- usually used of people, especially women; -- contrary to {handsome}.
None so homely but loves a looking-glass. --South.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Homely \Home"ly\, adverb Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed. [R.] --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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" [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
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