Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: homely
IPA transcription: [h'oʊmli]
Pronunciations of homely
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: homely, plain
    Meaning: lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face"
  • Synonyms: homelike, homely, homey, homy
    Meaning: having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn"
  • Synonyms: homely
    Meaning: plain and unpretentious; "homely truths"; "letters to his son full of homely advice"; "homely fare"
Usage examples
  • This was homely and comforting.
  • Apply the blacksmith's homely principle when you are speaking.
  • And they would not take a penny for anything. And they kept saying: 'Excuse our homely ways.'"
  • Knowing well that "home-staying youths have ever homely wits," he goes out and sees the world.
  • Even then his friends saw the germs of the statesman in the lank, homely, crack-voiced hobbledehoy.
  • For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.
  • John was a man small of stature, dark, with homely features, but he was very determined to get away from oppression.
  • Estimation has been partly arrested at its medium and personal relations have added their homely accent to universal discourse.
  • This art of speaking in Parliament, which had appeared to him to be so grand, seemed already to be a humdrum, homely, dull affair.
  • At the end of the drive nearest the road, I met Alice, my youngest sister, walking briskly with a book under her arm, and a quiet smile upon her homely face.
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