HOMELIKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homelike mean? 

• HOMELIKE (adjective)
  The adjective HOMELIKE has 1 sense:

1. having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable

  Familiarity information: HOMELIKE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMELIKE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable

Synonyms:

homelike; homely; homey; homy

Context example:

a homey little inn

Similar:

comfortable; comfy (providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief ('comfy' is informal))

 Context examples 

I want to open a school for little lads—a good, happy, homelike school, with me to take care of them and Fritz to teach them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was tired of wandering about alone, and Amy's familiar presence seemed to give a homelike charm to the foreign scenes in which she bore a part.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Home grew homelike again, and John had no wish to leave it, unless he took Meg with him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It never was a fashionable school, and the Professor did not lay up a fortune, but it was just what Jo intended it to be—'a happy, homelike place for boys, who needed teaching, care, and kindness'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So the young pair shook hands upon it, and then paced happily on again, feeling that their pleasant home was more homelike because they hoped to brighten other homes, believing that their own feet would walk more uprightly along the flowery path before them, if they smoothed rough ways for other feet, and feeling that their hearts were more closely knit together by a love which could tenderly remember those less blest than they.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There were to be no ceremonious performances, everything was to be as natural and homelike as possible, so when Aunt March arrived, she was scandalized to see the bride come running to welcome and lead her in, to find the bridegroom fastening up a garland that had fallen down, and to catch a glimpse of the paternal minister marching upstairs with a grave countenance and a wine bottle under each arm.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)