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homeless |
homeless person |
homelessness |
homelike |
homelily |
homeliness
| homeling
| homely
| homelyn
| homemade
| homemaker
homeliness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun homeliness has 2 senses
- homeliness(n = noun.attribute) dowdiness, drabness - having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance; Array is a kind of inelegance
- homeliness(n = noun.attribute) plainness - an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful; "fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness" is a kind of appearance, visual aspect
Derived forms adjective homely1, adjective homely4
Derived form adjective homely1
CIDE DICTIONARY
homeliness, n. [From Homely.].
- Domesticity; care of home. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Familiarity; intimacy. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Plainness; want of elegance or beauty. [1913 Webster]
- Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language. Addison. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
homeliness
Simplicity
N simplicity, plainness, homeliness, undress, chastity, simple, plain, homely, homespun, ordinary, household, unaffected, ingenuous, sincere (artless), free from affectation, free from ornament, simplex munditiis, sans facon, en deshabille, chaste, inornate, severe, unadorned, bare, unornamented, undecked, ungarnished, unarranged, untrimmed, unvarnished, bald, flat, dull, veritatis simplex oratio est.Vulgarity
N vulgarity, vulgarism, barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism, mauvis gout, bad taste, gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact, ill-breeding, courseness, indecorum, misbehavior, lowness, homeliness, low life, mauvais ton, rusticity, boorishness, brutality, rowdyism, blackguardism, ribaldry, slang, bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie, gaudiness, tawdriness, false ornament, finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant, baroque, rococo, rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub, clown, Goth, Vandal, Boeotian, snob, cad, gent, parvenu, frump, dowdy, slattern, in bad taste vulgar, unrefined, coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross, unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable, contra bonos mores, ungraceful, dowdy, slovenly, ungenteel, shabby genteel, low, common, hoi polloi, uncourtly, uncivil, ill bred, ill mannered, underbred, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unladylike, unfeminine, wild, wild as an unbacked colt, untutored, unschooled (ignorant), unkempt, uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth, plebeian, incondite, heavy, rude, awkward, homely, homespun, home bred, provincial, countrified, rustic, boorish, clownish, savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish, barbarous, barbaric, Gothic, unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish, uncultivated, Bohemian, obsolete, unfashionable, newfangled, odd, particular, affected, meretricious, extravagant, monstrous, horrid, shocking, gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo, bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread, obtrusive.
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