Does Homely Mean Comfortable?

If you describe a room or house as homely, you like it because you feel comfortable and relaxed there.

What does it mean if you call someone homely?

Homely describes someone who's plain or unattractive, like your homely Aunt Agnes or her squish-faced bulldog. The adjective homely is a slightly more gentle word than ugly, with a meaning closer to "plain" than "hideous." It's almost always used to describe a less-than-attractive person, and occasionally an animal.

Is homely a compliment?

In a recent installment here, I mentioned the word homely . I said it “is one of those words that have two different, almost opposite meanings. On the one hand, it means easygoing, relaxed, natural; on the other, it means coarse, unrefined, ugly.”