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.