That is one homely child. Your trailer is homely! You are kinda homely aren't you? You are one homely dresser! Matt what the fuck are you doing out of your dorm , I don't want to be seen with your homely ass in public!
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Send us feedback. See more words from the same century. Accessed 12 Nov. More Definitions for homely. See the full definition for homely in the English Language Learners Dictionary.
Nglish: Translation of homely for Spanish Speakers. Britannica English: Translation of homely for Arabic Speakers. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of homely. Your article had the only words I had ever seen printed that substantiated my now-Irish understanding. That " U. I turned to Norman W. It is quite possible to be attractive and homely in Britain.
Homely , applied to the atmosphere of a place, comes close to the German gemutlich. Homely , in America, is uncomplimentary and means not good looking or even ugly. One wonders about the social implications of the evolution in America of the adjective homely from the proud noun home. See plain for the American sense of homely. Meiosis is a figure of speech akin to irony. It is a form of understatement. Plain and homely may, indeed, be examples of meiosis.
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