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.

Adjective

(en adjective)

From or in a nearby location.

* , chapter=22

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.

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(computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.

(mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.

(medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.

Descended from an indigenous population.