homelike
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2.7
- adjective
- /ˈhoʊmˌlaɪk/
- 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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3.8
Food or rooms that feel warm and make you comfortable
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4.8
A small, warm, comfortable feeling like being in your house
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.