diff --git a/Formula/hunspell.rb b/Formula/hunspell.rb
index cd17c5bba0..76178fd217 100644
--- a/Formula/hunspell.rb
+++ b/Formula/hunspell.rb
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 class Hunspell < Formula
   desc "Spell checker and morphological analyzer"
   homepage "https://hunspell.github.io"
-  url "https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/archive/v1.5.0.tar.gz"
-  sha256 "b74f2df1aafdbc1f0941d721d7895da4b27b85bba7a4c699a9209477cbbf1f59"
+  url "https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/archive/v1.4.1.tar.gz"
+  sha256 "c4476aff0ced52eec334eae1e8d3fdaaebdd90f5ecd0b57cf2a92a6fd220d1bb"
+  revision 1
 
   bottle do
     sha256 "d4cc7d577e89e8e67312821828978a5bfa812188f674a67b29cfbc7dc7695dac" => :sierra
@@ -14,7 +15,18 @@ class Hunspell < Formula
 
   conflicts_with "freeling", :because => "both install 'analyze' binary"
 
+  # hunspell does not prepend $HOME to all USEROODIRs
+  # https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/issues/32
+  patch do
+    url "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/formula-patches/684440d/hunspell/prepend_user_home_to_useroodirs.diff"
+    sha256 "456186c9e569c51065e7df2a521e325d536ba4627d000ab824f7e97c1e4bc288"
+  end
+
   def install
+    ENV.deparallelize
+
+    # The following line can be removed on release of next stable version
+    inreplace "configure", "1.4.0", "1.4.1"
     system "./configure", "--disable-dependency-tracking",
                           "--prefix=#{prefix}",
                           "--with-ui",