beautiful vs homely

beautiful

adj
  • Pleasant; clear. 

  • Well executed. 

  • Good, admirable. 

  • Attractive and possessing beauty. 

noun
  • Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address. 

homely

adj
  • Friendly; kind; gracious; cordial. 

  • Personal; private. 

  • Domestic; tame. 

  • On intimate or friendly terms with (someone); familiar; at home (with a person); intimate. 

  • Characteristic of, belonging to, or befitting a home; domestic, cozy. 

  • Lacking in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance, physically unattractive. 

  • Conservative and family-oriented. 

How often have the words beautiful and homely occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )