[
UK
/hˈəʊmli/
]
[ US /ˈhoʊmɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈhoʊmɫi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable
a homey little inn
the homely everyday atmosphere -
lacking in physical beauty or proportion
a homely child
a plain girl with a freckled face
several of the buildings were downright homely -
plain and unpretentious
homely truths
homely fare
letters to his son full of homely advice -
without artificial refinement or elegance
homely manners
plain homely furniture
How To Use homely In A Sentence
- And she fitted well into the homely scene: short and somewhat "squatty" of form, red-haired, freckle-faced and pug-nosed. Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
- An older, very homely woman answered and let him in.
- They have a great homely feel. The Sun
- Yet despite the fact that he was often referred to as homely or even ugly, Maureen was struck by how absolutely beautiful he was. The Poet Prince
- It's a low budget affair and so the hotel was unpretentious and homely and cheap.
- Our tutors specialise in teaching beginners in a very relaxed homely atmosphere.
- Instead, let's remember the homely origins of the layered approach to fashion. Times, Sunday Times
- I grandthinked after his obras after another time about the itch in his egondoom he was legging boldylugged from some pulversporochs and lyoking for a stool-eazy for to nemesisplotsch allafranka and for to salubrate himself with an ultradungs heavenly mass at his base by a suprime pomp-ship chorams the perished popes, the reverend and allaverred cromlecks, and when I heard his lewdbrogue reciping his cheap cheateary gospeds to sintry and santry and sentry and suntry I thought he was only haftara having afterhis brokeforths but be the homely Churopodvas I no sooner seen aghist of his frighte-ousness then I was bibbering with vear a few versets off fooling for fjorg for my fifth foot. Finnegans Wake
- They make me feel chilled and homely. Times, Sunday Times
- Use display space for colorful and attractive items and stow away the more homely basics.