A person considered homely in appearance can posses a beautiful and pleasing personality.
Homely means plain looking, not attractive. Occassionally used as an understatement for ugly.
That homely banjo player left us in the weeds.
"I'm so homely nobody would ever want to marry me -- except maybe a foreign missionary. Not only am I homely, I'm also thin. I love to imagine I'm nice and plump with dimples in my elbows. Am I talking too much?"
Homely women might feel uncomfortable in the presence of beautiful women because of the contrast."Clara was surprised that such a physically attractive couple had produced such a homely little girl."
At Baseball/softball practice my team was cheering me on to hit a home run to beat the other team.
The abstract noun form of the adjective 'homely' is homeliness.
Homely Girl was created on 1989-10-19.
Homely, unattractive
Homely, unattractive
Ugly or homely
hideous, homely, unsightly, scrofulous, monstrous, unattractive, atrocious, repulsive,
Elrond Half-Elven is the Lord of Imladris, or Rivendell, known commonly as the Last Homely House.