homelike
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2.7
- adjective
- /ˈhoʊmˌlaɪk/
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acogedor
- ALFs attempt to minimize resident isolation and bolster social support through congregate living in a homelike atmosphere.
- homelike setting
- homelike environment
Examples
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Advantages for patients include greater privacy, a more homelike setting, staff trained to meet their special needs, avoidance of distracting and confusing stimuli, and services designed to meet the needs of memory-impaired individuals.
Academic text (1997) -
Better-informed consumers are saying, "We prefer to live in our own homes if we can, and if we cannot, we want to stay in a homelike environment, in the least restrictive, most cost-effective modality that is possible."
Academic text (1995) -
Some women want their birth experiences in a truly homelike setting and prefer to remain outside a hospital.
Academic text (1997) -
Designing homelike residential settings for people with minimum care needs is no great challenge.
Academic text (1995) -
In each case, the sense of home varies in space: some places are conceived as more homelike than others.
Academic text (1995) -
The whole place looked dilapidated but lived in, more homelike than the store.
Fiction book (1999) -
Each resident, with the assistance of family or other helpers, creates a homelike setting by providing his own furniture, pictures, memorabilia, and other personal belongings.
Academic text (1997) -
The infant-mother interactions were videotaped in the families' homes or in other homelike environments at times the mothers reported to be convenient for them and their infants.
Academic text (1997) -
McTeague's narrator understands the desire for personification, a desire which here identifies the absence of persons, explaining that "In some places east of the Mississippi, nature is cozy, intimate, small, and homelike, like a good-natured housewife."
Academic text (2016) -
The cozy furniture and warm colors created a homelike atmosphere in the guesthouse.
Synonyms
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3.5
Makes people feel comfortable and welcome like being at home
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4.1
Comfortable and simple in a warm, friendly way
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4.8
A small, warm, comfortable feeling like being in your house
Food or rooms that feel warm and make you comfortable
Antonyms
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word homelike is made from home and the ending -like, which means 'similar to'. So something homelike is 'similar to home', warm, comfortable, and making people feel at ease.