homeliness

听听怎么读

英 ['həʊmlɪnəs]

美 ['hoʊmlɪnəs]

是什么意思

简朴，朴实；相貌平平；

英英释义

homeliness[ 'həumlinis ]

n.
- having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance
  同义词：dowdinessdrabness
- an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful
  "fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness"
  同义词：plainness

学习怎么用

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

Fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness.
华丽的衣服并不能掩盖这个女孩的寻常容貌。

权威例句

The homeliness in care homes
A Helping of Homeliness in the Dining Room
Traditional Chinese medicine for treating homeliness type acne
Longing for homeliness: exploring mealtime experiences of patients suffering from a neurological disease
Observation and nursing of narrow-band UVB to treat homeliness psoriasis
Memories, identity and homeliness: the social construction of mealtimes in residential care homes in South Wales
PAAS 2015 : Homeliness, Domesticity and Security in American Culture. Polish Association for American Studies Annual Conference.
'You wouldn't know what's in there would you?' : Homeliness and 'foreign' signs in Ashfield, Sydney
Rewriting the Plaasroman: Nostalgia, Intimacy and (Un)homeliness in Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat
Homeliness is in the disgust sensitivity of the beholder: relatively unattractive faces appear especially unattractive to individual...