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homespun

noun

1 homespun

A rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home.

Polish: samodziaƂ

adjective

1 homespun

Of textiles; having a rough surface:
— A sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns.

synonyms: nubbly, nubby, slubbed, tweedy.

Roget 876: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes etc. (unimportant) 643; ... show more

Roget 851: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.    coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful etc. (ugly) 846.    ... show more

Roget 849: simple, plain; homely, homespun; ordinary, household.    unaffected; ingenuous, sincere (artless) 703; free from affectation, free from ornament; simplex munditiis [Lat.] ... show more

Roget 329: structural, organic; anatomic, anatomical.    textural, textile; fine grained, coarse grained; fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, ... show more

Roget 576: plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely, homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, ... show more

2 homespun

Characteristic of country life:
— The air of homespun country boys.

synonym: cracker-barrel.

3 homespun

Made of cloth spun or woven in the home.

Polish: samodziaƂowy


Moby thesaurus: Attic, Babbittish, Philistine, Spartan, amateur, amateurish, arcadian, ascetic, assembled, austere, bald, bare, basic, bourgeois, broken, bucolic, built, bumpy, campy, candid ... show more.

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