homespun

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: home=spun

CIDE DICTIONARY

homespun, a. 

•  Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain.  W. Irving.  [1913 Webster]
•  Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse.  [1913 Webster]

homespun, n. 

•  Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.  [1913 Webster]
•  An unpolished, rustic person.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

homespun, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 a (of cloth) made of yarn spun at home. b (of yarn) spun at home.
2 plain, simple, unsophisticated, homely.
--n.
1 homespun cloth.
2 anything plain or homely.

THESAURUS

homespun

Attic, Babbittish, Philistine, Spartan, amateur, amateurish, arcadian, ascetic, assembled, austere, 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, 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, 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

ROGET THESAURUS

homespun

Plainness

N plainness, simplicity, severity, plain terms, plain English, Saxon English, household words, plain, simple, unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished, homely, homespun, neat, severe, chaste, pure, Saxon, commonplace, matter-of- fact, natural, prosaic, dry, unvaried, monotonous, in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common parlance, point-blank.

Simplicity

N simplicity, plainness, homeliness, undress, chastity, simple, plain, homely, homespun, ordinary, household, unaffected, ingenuous, sincere (artless), free from affectation, free from ornament, simplex munditiis, sans facon, en deshabille, chaste, inornate, severe, unadorned, bare, unornamented, undecked, ungarnished, unarranged, untrimmed, unvarnished, bald, flat, dull, veritatis simplex oratio est.

Vulgarity

N vulgarity, vulgarism, barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism, mauvis gout, bad taste, gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact, ill-breeding, courseness, indecorum, misbehavior, lowness, homeliness, low life, mauvais ton, rusticity, boorishness, brutality, rowdyism, blackguardism, ribaldry, slang, bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie, gaudiness, tawdriness, false ornament, finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant, baroque, rococo, rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub, clown, Goth, Vandal, Boeotian, snob, cad, gent, parvenu, frump, dowdy, slattern, in bad taste vulgar, unrefined, coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross, unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable, contra bonos mores, ungraceful, dowdy, slovenly, ungenteel, shabby genteel, low, common, hoi polloi, uncourtly, uncivil, ill bred, ill mannered, underbred, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unladylike, unfeminine, wild, wild as an unbacked colt, untutored, unschooled (ignorant), unkempt, uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth, plebeian, incondite, heavy, rude, awkward, homely, homespun, home bred, provincial, countrified, rustic, boorish, clownish, savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish, barbarous, barbaric, Gothic, unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish, uncultivated, Bohemian, obsolete, unfashionable, newfangled, odd, particular, affected, meretricious, extravagant, monstrous, horrid, shocking, gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo, bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread, obtrusive.

Commonalty

N commonality, commonalty, democracy, obscurity, low condition, low life, low society, low company, bourgeoisie, mass of the people, mass of society, Brown Jones and Robinson, lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders, vulgar herd, common herd, rank and file, hoc genus omne, the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry, king Mob, proletariat, fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed, man in the street, mob, rabble, rabble rout, chaff, rout, horde, canaille, scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society, swinish multitude, foex populi, trash, profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus, vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail, small fry, commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary, proletaire, roturier, Mr, Snooks, bourgeois, epicier, Philistine, cockney, grisette, demimonde, peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl, villain, villein, terrae filius, son of the land, serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah, longshoreman, swain, clown, hind, clod, clodhopper, hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin, plowman, plowboy, rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil, hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling, gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling, gamin, rough, pot- wallopper, slubberdegullion, vulgar fellow, low fellow, cad, curmudgeon, upstart, parvenu, skipjack, nobody, nobody one knows, hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti, bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer, man of straw, beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade, gossoon, Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo, unlicked cub, rough diamond, barbarousness, barbarism, boeotia, ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly, below par, no great shakes, homely, homespun, vulgar, low-minded, snobbish, plebeian, proletarian, of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction, lowborn, baseborn, earthborn, mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks, unknown to fame, obscure, untitled, rustic, uncivilized, loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish, rude, unlicked, barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque, cockney, born within sound of Bow bells, underling, menial, subaltern, below the salt, dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet.

Texture

N texture, structure (form), organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction, framework, carcass, architecture, stratification, cleavage, substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma, constitution, staple, organism, organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology, angiography, adenography, texture, surface texture, intertexture, contexture, tissue, grain, web, surface, warp and woof, warp and weft, tooth, nap, flatness (smoothness), fineness of grain, coarseness of grain, dry goods, silk, satin, muslin, burlap, histology, structural, organic, anatomic, anatomical, textural, textile, fine grained, coarse grained, fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny, coarse, homespun, rough, gritty, smooth, smooth as silk, smooth as satin.