'Homespun' definitions:
Definition of 'homespun'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns" [syn: homespun(p), nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy]
adjective
Characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy"; "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys" [syn: cracker-barrel, folksy, homespun]
adjective
Made of cloth spun or woven in the home; "homespun linen"; "homespun garments"
noun
A rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home
Definition of 'Homespun'
From: GCIDE
- Homespun \Home"spun\, a.
- 1. Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain. "Homespun country garbs." --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse. "Our homespun English proverb." --Dryden. "Our homespun authors." --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Homespun'
From: GCIDE
- Homespun \Home"spun\, n.
- 1. Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An unpolished, rustic person. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'homespun'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amateur,
- amateurish,
- arcadian,
- ascetic,
- assembled,
- Attic,
- austere,
- Babbittish,
- bald,
- bare,
- basic,
- bourgeois,
- broken,
- bucolic,
- built,
- bumpy,
- campy,
- candid,
- cast,
- chaste,
- choppy,
- classic,
- classical,
- coarse,
- coarse-grained,
- common,
- commonplace,
- constructed,
- corrugated,
- crafted,
- created,
- cross-grained,
- crude,
- custom,
- custom-built,
- custom-made,
- direct,
- down-to-earth,
- dry,
- dull,
- elementary,
- essential,
- everyday,
- extracted,
- fabricated,
- fashioned,
- forged,
- formed,
- frank,
- fundamental,
- garden,
- garden-variety,
- gathered,
- general,
- genuine,
- grainy,
- granulated,
- grown,
- handcrafted,
- handmade,
- harvested,
- high-camp,
- homely,
- homemade,
- homogeneous,
- horripilant,
- household,
- inartificial,
- indivisible,
- inelegant,
- inequal,
- irreducible,
- irregular,
- jolty,
- kitschy,
- lean,
- linsey-woolsey,
- low-camp,
- machine-made,
- machined,
- made,
- made to order,
- man-made,
- manufactured,
- matter-of-fact,
- mere,
- milled,
- mined,
- molded,
- monolithic,
- native,
- natural,
- naturelike,
- neat,
- nondescript,
- of a piece,
- open,
- ordinary,
- pastoral,
- Philistine,
- pimply,
- pitted,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- plebeian,
- pocky,
- pop,
- popular,
- potholed,
- prefab,
- prefabricated,
- primal,
- primary,
- processed,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- public,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- put together,
- raised,
- rank,
- ready-for-wear,
- ready-formed,
- ready-made,
- ready-prepared,
- ready-to-wear,
- refined,
- ripply,
- rough,
- rough-cast,
- rough-grained,
- rough-hewn,
- rude,
- ruffled,
- rural,
- rustic,
- rutted,
- rutty,
- severe,
- shagged,
- shaggy,
- shaped,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- single,
- smelted,
- sober,
- spare,
- Spartan,
- stark,
- straightforward,
- textured,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- unartificial,
- unassuming,
- uncluttered,
- undesigning,
- undifferenced,
- undifferentiated,
- undisguising,
- undissembling,
- undissimulating,
- unembellished,
- uneven,
- unfeigning,
- uniform,
- unimaginative,
- unkempt,
- unlevel,
- unpoetical,
- unpolished,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unprofessional,
- unrefined,
- unsmooth,
- unsophisticated,
- unspoiled,
- ununiform,
- unvarnished,
- vernacular,
- well-built,
- well-constructed,
- well-made,
- wimpled,
- workaday,
- workday