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down-home

down-home adjective: simple and unpretentious, especially having the characteristics of a Southern rural lifestyle.

Adjective

down-home (comparative more down-home, superlative most down-home)

  1. (US) Simple and unpretentious, especially having the characteristics of a Southern rural lifestyle.
    • The guitarist wearing fatigues and sneakers, sitting on a stool telling down-home stories interspersed with a few yodels.1980 February 16, Althea, “Teresa Trull and Julie Homi with the Harp Band [review]”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 29, page 13
    • Just as Mr. Clinton began a comeback with a down-home plea for forgiveness, Mrs. Clinton now seems determined to prove, perhaps to the point of overcompensation, that she will not repeat the mistakes that plagued her 2008 campaign.2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, It’s Not Hard to Be Humble in an Effort to Regain Power”, in The New York Times

Synonyms of down-home

Forms of down-home

comparativemore down-home
superlativemost down-home
alternative formdownhome
alternative formdown home

Questions about down-home

What does down-home mean?
Down-home means simple and unpretentious, especially having the characteristics of a Southern rural lifestyle.
What part of speech is down-home?
Down-home is an adjective.

Words near down-home in the dictionary

  1. down-gyved
  2. down-hearted
  3. down-heartedly
  4. down-heartedness
  5. down-hole
  6. down-home
  7. down-line
  8. down-lines
  9. down-low
  10. down-lows
  11. down-modulate

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