Homely vs Everyday - What's the difference?

Homely is a related term of everyday.

As adjectives the difference between homely and everyday

is that homely is (dated) lacking in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance, physically unattractive while everyday is appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.

As an adverb everyday is

As a noun everyday is

(rare) the ordinary or routine day or occasion.

homely

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (Scotland)

Adjective

(en-adj)

(dated) Lacking in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance, physically unattractive.

There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass.

* 1958 , , Lolita , Chapter 15

You see, she'' sees herself as a starlet; ''I see her as a sturdy, healthy but decidedly homely kid.

(archaic) Characteristic of or belonging to home; domestic.

On intimate or friendly terms with (someone); familiar; at home (with a person); intimate.

* 1563 , , Chapter on William Thorpe

With all these men I was right homely , and communed with them long and oft.

Domestic; tame.

Personal; private.

Friendly; kind; gracious; cordial.

(archaic) Simple; plain; familiar; unelaborate; unadorned.

* 1731 , , Strephon and Chloe, Lines 211-212

Now Strephon daily entertains / His Chloe in the homeliest strains.

* 2001 , Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography , Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 167,

There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.

Antonyms

* comely

everyday

English

Adjective

(-)

appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions

* 1906 , , Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,

When they had gone, Bobbie put on her everyday frock, and went down to the railway.

commonplace, ordinary

* 2010 , Malcolm Knox, The Monthly , April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 42:

Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe.

Synonyms

* mundane * quotidian * routine * unremarkable * workaday

Adverb

(head)

Usage notes

When describing the frequency of an event, it is considered correct to separate the individual words: every hour'', ''every day'', ''every week , etc.

Noun

(-)

(rare) the ordinary or routine day or occasion