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Nouns (1)

homespun

n. a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home

Verbs (0)

Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (7)

homespun

adj. made of cloth spun or woven in the home; "homespun linen"; "homespun garments"

folksy, cracker-barrel

adj. characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy"; "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys"

nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy

adj. of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns"

Fuzzynyms (19)

handmade, hand-crafted

adj. made by hand or a hand process; "delicate handmade baby dresses"

homely, homelike, homey, homy

adj. having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn"

barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, spiny, thorny

adj. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"

bestubbled, stubbled, stubbly

adj. having a short growth of beard; "his stubbled chin"

Synonyms (88)

do-it-yourself

adj. done by yourself; "their house was a do-it-yourself project"; "he opened a do-it-yourself store"

home-baked

adj. baked at home; "home-baked cakes and pies"

home-brewed

adj. brewed at home; "home-brewed beer"

home-cured

adj. cured at home; "home-cured hams"

farming, agrarian, agricultural

adj. relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities"

rustic, agrestic

adj. characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls"

pastoral, bucolic, Arcadian, rustic

adj. used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"

rustic, countrified, countryfied

adj. characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness"

country, country-bred

adj. rough and uncouth; "a country boy"

country, country-style

adj. typical of the country; "country-style sausage"; "country music"

farm

adj. "farm animals"; "a farm hand"

frontier

adj. on the American frontier: "one of the last real frontier towns"; "hardships of frontier life"

hick

adj. awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"

hobnailed

adj. marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails; "hobnailed laborers"

abrasive, scratchy

adj. causing abrasion

cracked, alligatored

adj. of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide

barky

adj. resembling the rough bark of a tree; "the rattlesnake's barky scales"

broken, rugged

adj. topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"

bullate

adj. of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered

jarring, bumpy, jolting, jolty

adj. covered with or full of bumps; "a bumpy country road"

cracked, chapped, roughened

adj. used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure; "chapped lips"

coarse

adj. "coarse skin"; "coarse woolens"

twill, pique, corded, twilled

adj. of textiles; having parallel raised lines

corduroy

adj. made of corduroy fabric

corduroy, log

adj. (of roads) made of logs laid down crosswise: "a corduroy road"

corrugated

adj. shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges; "the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated"

ribbed, costate

adj. (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture

craggy, mountainous, cragged, hilly

adj. having hills and crags; "hilly terrain"

crude, rude

adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"

crushed

adj. treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; "crushed velvet"

lined, furrowed, seamed

adj. (used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams; "their lined faces were immeasurably sad"; "a seamed face"

grooved, canaliculate

adj. having thin parallel channels; "canaliculate leafstalks of certain plants"

imbricate, imbricated

adj. used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles

scaly, scabrous, leprose, scabby, scurfy

adj. rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf

pocked, potholed, pot-holed

adj. used of paved surfaces having holes or pits

wrinkled, puckered, wrinkly

adj. marked with wrinkles or furrows; "her ancient wrinkled cheeks"

rocky, stony, bouldery, bouldered

adj. abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches"

roughish

adj. somewhat rough

rugose

adj. of leaves; ridged or wrinkled

rutted, rutty

adj. full of ruts; "rutty farm roads"

textured, rough-textured

adj. having surface roughness; "a textured wall of stucco"; "a rough-textured tweed"

unsmooth

adj. having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"

verrucose, warty

adj. (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts

Antonyms (1)

manufactured

adj. produced in a large-scale industrial operation

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